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General
How Media Plays Statistics
XKCD, the great sage of our times, has it absolutely right. (You need to carefully look at the three rows of similar looking panels below – casual ...
Opinion
Speak Asia: Scam or For Real?
(Updated 16/5/2011: See Links Section) Another Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scheme called Speak Asia is now doing the rounds. With big ads on TV, newspapers and ...
Commentary
MV Chronicle: The Beast Called Volume and more…
In the April 9, 2011 edition of the MarketVision Chronicle, I write about The Beast Called Volume: (Registration required, free) With the incredible match last ...
Opinion
At Yahoo: Statistically Losing The World Cup
I write at Yahoo: Statistically Losing The World Cup (Reproduced in Entirety) “No century-scorer has ever been on the losing side of a World Cup ...
Foundations
Q: Why Can't MFs Pay Dividends From "Unit Premium Reserve"?
In an email, asks: I was reading recently about rule change in March 2010 forbidding equity funds from paying dividends out of the unit premium reserve. My ...
Stocks
A Short Take on DLF (Link)
In a recent Conversations piece, I spoke with Ramki about a few stocks, and in them was DLF. There has been a dangerous upmove in DLF since (and we were ...
General
Liquor 40-60 % costlier in Mumbai
Thanks to Madhu Menon ( @madmanweb ), I found a TOI link on higher liquor costs in Mumbai. Talk of high spirits — beer and hard liquor will cost 40-60% more ...
General
At Pragati: Open Up The Rupee
Last month, I wrote for Pragati on issues with Paypal recently and why the real solution is to Open Up The Rupee: PayPal, the company that pioneered payments ...
Stocks
Indian Private Banks – Most Expensive in Asia
A CLSA report I got by email recently had this graph which stunned me: Sure, some of our biggest private banks (HDFC Bank, Axis) are actually growing ...
Mutual Funds