Hong Kong property still double Shenzhen’s prices just a few minutes across the border
Sheung Shui is a residential neighborhood over an hour away from Hong Kong island, so remote that no one I know would […]
Author: quantofasia
Retro sentiment chart: Which decade would you most like to go back to?
Still one of my favorite surveys by the Economist is this one showing which decade of the 20th century respondents would like […]
6 Reasons NOT to learn Chinese (and 6 alternatives)
Being bilingual can be a redundant waste of time in the extreme case that everyone you converse with also happen to be […]
Celebrating 1,000 hits from over 30 countries
A quick “thank you” to readers who brought this site to 1,000 hits shortly after I turned on the counter and figured […]
Friday Photo: Ad in HK for Australia’s Labor Party
I don’t know how much longer they will keep this ad up after having lost the election last week, and also haven’t […]
Bitcoin next to Beachcoin
Imagine two wealthy, autonomous island nations in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. One day, more due to boredom than Bernanke, both […]
TED list of the world’s most walkable cities
Nice to see TED re-awaken a focused debate on the importance of walkability of cities, but their recently published list seems terribly […]
Remembering 9/11 with an eye on the future
Today is a business day in most of the world, even in the nation attacked 12 years ago which officially marks it […]
Puerto Rico now over 2x Philippines in bond yield
In early 1898, Spain still controlled islands in both the East Indies and the West Indies that still qualified it as an […]
Friday Photo: “Golden Pagoda in Rangoon” by Hiroshi Yoshida
Similar to the Asterix cartoon and the 1970s Shanghai photo posted a few weeks ago, I wanted to continue the habit of […]