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David M Webb
Personal blog · webb-site.com/articleseconomicspolitics
David M Webb writes Webb-site.com, a personal blog at webb-site.com about economics and politics. Since 2013, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Covid-19: where does Hong Kong go from here?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link David M Webb's site as a source on Hong Kong company and exchange data, such as hidden company registry details, HKEX's market position, and company name changes. No commenter judges the writing directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The continuing opinions and analysis of David M Webb MBE, founder of Webb-site.com, following the shutdown of the main server on 31-Oct-2025. Click to read Webb-site.com,
Most-linked posts?
- Covid-19: where does Hong Kong go from here?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-27
- Bitcoin: The World's First Decentralized Ponzi Scheme2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-15
What Hacker News says?
It's not hard when you have government gifted statutory monopoly and are also given control of listing and clearing regulations. The government ban on any competition to HKEX means that their net profit margin was 61% last year. As activist investor David Web put it: "On top of that, HKEX doesn’t even do its job well as an exchange, because it has been exempted from the Competition Ordinance and has fees, profit mar…
Comment linking /articles/listing170915.asp
on “Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange”Submitted A gracious end to Webb-site as a story · 168 points
HN discussionI'm the author of this article. Unfortunately financial and officer/director data for Hong Kong private companies is hidden behind a paywall (see details here under the section Tear Down That Wall: https://webb-site.com/articles/identity2.asp ), although at least it is available, as far as it goes, but even then, the Ultimate Beneficial Owner is not public. [This is the situation currently being litigated against Hu…
Comment linking /articles/identity2.asp
on “Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months”Submitted 30 Years in Hong Kong as a story · 56 points
HN discussionCurious as to how OP managed to get the registry data. HK government is infamous for sucking at opening their data. This guy: https://webb-site.com/ is famous for spitting in their eyes regularly to remind them.
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on “Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months”Submitted Bitcoin: The World's First Decentralized Ponzi Scheme as a story · 16 points
HN discussionCertainly not just PCCW: https://webb-site.com/dbpub/subject.asp?t=72
Comment linking /dbpub/subject.asp?t=72
on “Cathay Pacific flags data breach affecting 9.4M passengers”Submitted The hole in Bitcoin as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin: the World's first decentralised Ponzi scheme as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the GameStop game will stop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid-19: where does Hong Kong go from here? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Webb-Site Repository as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webb-Site Database as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid-19: where do we go from here? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid-19: where do we go from here? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most likely outcome for HK as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The HKID index: service suspended (due to HK Government pressure on founder) as a story · 1 points
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