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A Real Estate Regulator In The Offing

The Union Cabinet has approved a bill to set up a real estate regulator in India. Don’t rejoice yet; to become a law, the bill needs to be passed in ...

India 3rd Largest Economy, HDIL, Tata Motors, Spain’s Record Deficit

India is probably the world’s third largest economy, says the OECD. While this sounds good, it’s probably because in dollar terms the Japanese economy has ...

Pandit buys into JM, The US is Not 1999 and More

Vikram Pandit has bought a 3% stake in JM Financial for $10 million, and they’re applying for a banking license. The group’s financial activities will be ...

When Gold Prices Fall, India Doubles Gold Imports!

I had recently mentioned that the Gold price drop would cause the Indian Current Account Deficit to narrow, and even quantified the amount: (How Much do the ...

Real Estate, Not That Great Long Term, says Ajay Shah

Ajay Shah writes that Real Estate is not a great long-term investment: Too many intelligent people in India believe that one can never do wrong by investing in ...

Housing Prices Do Show Signs of a Bubble

In the post-policy press conference, Dr. Subbarao, Big Boss of the RBI, made this innocuous statement: Shishir Shindekar: Sir the housing price index is ...

How Much do the Crude and Gold Price Crash Help India’s Current Account Deficit?

Indian markets have rallied substantially in the face of falling crude and falling gold. This is on the assumption that India will have a much lower current ...

SEBI Finally Catches A Misseller Who Preyed on Mourners

In a rare case of actually investigating fraudulent misselling, SEBI has managed to trap “agents” who tried to fleece families that had just lost a dear ...

Rahul Gandhi Doesn’t Say, SEBI Might Regulate Tweets, The Sahara Farce in Vacation-Returned-Links

The vacation to Goa was fantastic. I visit Goa often and have zero interest in sight-seeing, so it might seem extremely boring to hear that all I did was hang ...

Helaine Olen on The Daily Show on Guru-sters

On The Daily Show, Helaine Olen, who wrote the book "Pound Foolish", talks about the way personal finance gurus tend to tell us about all these ...