Joseph Yam

6 Jul 2012

Factors that affect Hong Kong's property market are well-documented, and they only occasionally include the city's currency peg to the US dollar.

7:19PM

Sharing secrets and courting media is simply irresponsible

22 Jun 2012

There has been a general breakdown of moral ethics in political behaviour in Hong Kong, and the situation is deteriorating quickly.

6:12PM

Keep peg, ex-stock exchange chief says

17 Jun 2012

The former chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing says the city's currency peg to the US dollar should stay and any evaluation of the system should be done internally, not in public.

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5:47PM

Yam's monetary weapon of revenge

16 Jun 2012

When someone says he has no ulterior motive, you can be sure that's exactly what he has.

5:43PM

Letters

15 Jun 2012

In defence of challenging rubber stamp

I take issue with Louisa Chan's views in her letter ('Bad influence on younger generation', June 10).

5:38PM

Dollar peg fits nicely with Hong Kong's way of life

14 Jun 2012

We may have one country, two systems - but just how many currencies does China need? The answer from most in the financial world is to maintain the status quo, at least until the yuan becomes...

5:31PM

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Yam's paper on the peg goes beyond the money

In addition to raising speculation about the future of the Hong Kong dollar, Joseph Yam Chi-kwong's controversial paper on the city's monetary system has led to speculation about his own motives...

5:31PM

It's all down to a question of timing

The timing of former central banker Joseph Yam Chi-kwong's call for a review of the Hong Kong-US dollar peg could be a bid to press incoming leader Leung Chun-ying to address the issue, political...

5:30PM

HK 'can ditch dollar peg' - Yam

Former central banker Joseph Yam Chi-kwong, who 29 years ago helped create the Hong Kong-US dollar peg, yesterday triggered wild debate by saying the city could 'do away with the exchange rate...

5:25PM

'Too-hasty' Yam gets taken down a peg

Joseph Yam Chi-kwong may have insisted it was just a regular citizen's expression of opinion when he released a paper on Hong Kong's currency peg yesterday, but the government took it so seriously...

5:25PM

Yam stirring up a hornets' nest

Since 1983, when pegging the Hong Kong dollar to the US dollar helped soothe frightened members of the public, some of whom had started to demand payment in US dollars, the linked exchange rate...

5:25PM

A one-trick pony or master of his realm?

Joseph Yam Chi-kwong may once have been the world's highest paid central banker, but that wasn't why the former Hong Kong Monetary Authority chief executive was nicknamed 'tsar' of the local...

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