About us
A feel for the magnitude of things.
The Quant publishes quantitative analysis of trade, economics, technology and finance. We work from Hong Kong with public data, to bring new perspectives and to check what the global debate asserts. Our readers run companies, invest, negotiate and make policy.
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Data first
We start from the numbers, not from a story in search of them. We take no camp: not China hawk or China booster, not AI doomer or accelerationist, not market bull or bear.
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First principles
We build our own frameworks and test the fashionable ones: de-risking, overcapacity, American decline, the AI singularity. Asking the right question is our deepest strength.
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At the frontier
We use AI openly in our research and writing, and we write for human and machine readers with the same care.
Smart people can come up with all sorts of ideas. Wise people know what matters and what can work, and wisdom has a lot to do with a feel for the magnitude of things. A world whose leaders lack that feel is a dangerous one. Our mission is to make the world wiser and safer.