The Bureaucracy Tax
Regulation, subsidies, permitting, compliance costs, administrative burden, and the hidden price of bad institutional incentives.
15 articles
European Dystopia 2.0
Facing mounting pressures, the European Union is currently reassessing its ambitious strategy to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
14 Feb 2024
The ESG Joyride?
On Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that prohibits state officials from using public funds for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives, as well as ESG bond sales.
03 May 2023
Party Over Profits
Since taking office in 2012, Xi Jinping has prioritized ideological purity, national security, and Communist Party dominance. Additionally, he has insisted on tighter government regulation of the economy.
24 Oct 2022
Carbon Offsetting, An Opaque And Booming Industry
A Cheap Tool Enabling Companies To Make Dubious "Net Zero" Claims.
13 Sept 2022
Beijing To Relax Its Grip On Tech And Foreign-Listed Stocks
On Wednesday, the Chinese government signaled support for the listing of Chinese companies abroad and that its crackdown on technology companies would end soon.
21 Mar 2022
Futu And Tiger Brokers Under Pressure
Futu Holding and UP Fintech Holding (the company behind Tiger Brokers), both U.S.-listed Chinese online brokerages, face regulatory concerns when China's new personal data privacy law takes effect on November 1, according to an analysis on the People's Daily website.
17 Oct 2021
Meituan Hit With $ 534m Antitrust Fine
China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) announced on Friday that Meituan had abused its monopoly in the country's online food delivery market.
11 Oct 2021
China Passes Its Personal Information Protection Law
A previous draft of the law said that tech companies must ask for the user's consent to collect its data and users can withdraw at any time. On top of this, companies can't refuse to serve users that do not opt in unless the data is necessary for the provision of the product or the service.
24 Aug 2021
Invest In China? Today?
The Chinese Government has taken extraordinary measures to keep its tech giants in check. It started with Alibaba and Jack Ma and has now expanded to Tencent, DiDi, Meituan and many other tech leaders.
01 Aug 2021
China's Bitcoin Crackdown
China's central bank has called for the shutdown of a company that, "was suspected of providing software services for virtual currency transactions". The People's Bank of China also warned institutions not to provide other services related to virtual currency.
11 Jul 2021
Didi Gets Slammed
The shares of Didi Global last traded at about $12, well below their initial price of $16.65 on June 30 - a fall in market capitalisation of about $19 billion.
11 Jul 2021