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Deficit funding – Using the PSU share pool
So Bond yields are at serious (recent) highs – 6.83% and counting. So the government is unlikely to get a huge bond sale through – but that is a ...
Commentary
"Older Posts" in my Blogger Template
This has been ticking me off for a while. I use Blogger “templates” and not “Layouts”, and there has never been the ability to create ...
Commentary
John Mauldin: The Law of Unintended Consequences
John Mauldin’s Thoughts from the frontline: The law of unintended consequences: In the beginning there were ratings agencies, and they rated corporate ...
Opinion
Subhiksha: Another Satyam in the making?
Sidin Vadukut writes at Mint, about the potential acquisition of “Blue Green Constructions and Investments” by Subhiksha, the ailing retailer whose ...
Foundations
Buy and Hold: Cracks in the wall
There is the theory that one can buy stocks or an index, and hold for a long long time, and boom, we have a winner. This theory has been peddled to ...
General
Jon Stewart On CNBC and Rick Santelli
So funny. And to think I actually defended Rick on a forum (more like noted he wasn’t quite an ...
Stocks
Letter to PFRDA : Why go back to Requiring Rating for Bonds
The PFRDA seems to have ditched the Expert Group. In it’s call for comments, I notice that they have both an incorrect entry (of what the Expert Group ...
Stocks
S&P wants rating agencies to be regulated
Bloomberg: S&P calls for greater regulation on credit ratings. (Hat tip: The Big Picture) Standard & Poor’s called for more regulation of ...
Economy