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Rogue Trader Loses $2 Billion

“Unauthorized” trading by a trader in London caused UBS, the large Swiss bank, to lose $2 bn . UBS management aims to “get to the bottom of the matter as ...

The Last Week in India: Sep 5-9 2011

I write at Yahoo about the previous week in Indian Business, in a commentary piece designed to entertain as much as inform: The week of September 5 to 9 has ...

The Gold Standard and Deflation

Gold is increasingly viewed in two kinds of angles, by seriously literate people all over the world. 1. That there will be inflation, and thus, gold will be ...

Readings: Farms, Prepayment Penalties, VC Movies

The mechanization of India’s farms Everonn tanks 48% after it’s MD is arrested in a bribery case RBI proposes ending pre-payment penalties on floating rate ...

TRAI Anti SMS Spam Rules From Sep 27

The new TRAI rules for SMS spam will now begin from Sep 27, after a long time snce they were introduced. (Read article) They had postponed them a few times and ...

American Nuclear Tech: It’s About Japan

Ashok Parthasarathi writes in IE that the US nuclear reactor suppliers, in which Japanese companies Toshiba and Hitachi have a majority stake, by Japanese ...

Readings: Edible Oils, Real Indian Story, Italian Mints

A few interesting things to read over the 2-day trading holiday: Italian town printing its own currency to escape austerity (Reuters) Nidhi Nath Srinivas on ...

Dan Ariely: Monkeys and Financial Advice

Dan Ariely writes about financial behaviour:  Typically, a financial adviser takes 1% of assets under management—annually!—to balance a portfolio, and ...

Prashant Jain: We’re Going Cheap

HDFC’s Prashant Jain says It is always darkest before dawn: Within it he sports this ...

SOme Links on a Mad Day

From @sachinkalbag: Real estate prices to fall 20% due to global slowdown, buyer’s delight. @pragmatic_d: The London Riots were partly rooted in social ...