Author Archives: Frank Siu

Frank Siu is a financial econometrician working in the private sector. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he takes a keen interest in local affairs, particularly issues of rising social inequality and deepening political uncertainty. He enjoys curry fish balls and rubik's cubes.

China’s economy headed downhill? Hong Kong’s (relatively) clear skies say so

by Frank Siu

Chinese macroeconomic indicators are notoriously dodgy.  Besides opaque and unreliable data sources, there are occasionally outright fraudulent figures, such as the recent discovery of an entire province having fabricated fiscal data for almost half a decade (not a small backwater, mind you, Liaoning has a population the size of Spain.) Even Premier Li Keqiang once […]