by Richard Harris | May 13, 2016 | Writer
Competition barely exists in Hong Kong. The city has lost its edge by pandering to modernism and depending too much on mainland customers. In the SCMP: Hong Kong has lost its cool… The main game is blame in Hong Kong these days. It is always someone...
by Richard Harris | Dec 17, 2015 | Writer
The markets are stressing about the fall in the oil price – who would have expected Brent at $37 even a year ago? But they are totally missing the most important commodity of all, and whose price has collapsed spectacularly. The price of money has been almost...
by Richard Harris | Dec 16, 2015 | Writer
Our city is becoming harder and harder to get around. There are solutions to the problem, but it needs the political will to find them. In the SCMP: Clogged-up thinking is not helping to solve traffic crisis A free parking space in Statue Square for my parent’s...
by Richard Harris | Dec 11, 2015 | Writer
Lunch with the Post – Santa’s views on 2016. On the naughty list: Janet Yellen for delaying rate rises and making us fret. On the nice list: the Greeks for bailing out… My lunch guest arrived at Noel’s Brasserie in Holly Wood Road, on a silent Varoufakis...
by Richard Harris | Dec 2, 2015 | Writer
Relationship between growth and interest rates breaks down once rates fall below 2 per cent, and policymakers don’t have the cure published in South China Morning Post. Flatlining vital signs are not good, download Doctors carry out triage on patients by checking the...
by Richard Harris | Nov 27, 2015 | Writer
From the ‘Belt and Road’, to TPP, AIIB, and numerous others – an alphabet soup of geopolitical initiatives have kept Asian leaders busy travelling. The geopolitical initiative is having more comebacks than Frank Sinatra. First up is “the Belt and Road” – of which...