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What I’d Like To See in the Budget For Startups

The Government Budget should not have any real meaning for startups. But startups – and here I mean small and micro enterprises – generate most of ...

Budget 2014: Capital Mind’s Coverage

It’s Budget season again! Budget 2014 will be presented by Mr. Arun Jaitley to the Parliament on July 10. Let’s be fair and admit that we don’t know a ...

Macronomics: Core Industries Data for May Looks Good But Isn’t

Looking at the Eight Core Industries Data for May 2014 we are tempted to think of this as a recovery. But it’s strangely not, after going through a detailed ...

On ET Now: My Budget Views Involve Railways, Shipping and Defence

On Wednesday I was on ET Now for a short interview on what sectors I thought would do well: The generic summary: Budget expectations are high, but I think they ...

Car Duty Cuts Extended, But They Haven’t Helped

The government has extended the excise duty cuts, given for Automobiles by Chidambaram in his budget. These reduced excise duty of cars by upto 4%, which, on a ...

Rajan on FSLRC: Further Oversight is Overreach, and Back Off a Little, Please

RBI’s Rajan talks about the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Committee (FSLRC) and specifically, how it works with: Judicial oversight of regulators ...

Surprise: WPI Inflation for May 2014 at 6%, Contradicting the Consumer Price Change

Wholesale Price Inflation for May 2014 came in at 6.01%, up from the 5.20% in April. This is a strange change from Consumer Price Inflation (which actually ...

IIP for April 2014 at +3.36%, Manufacturing Comes Back!

The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for April 2014 came in at a nice +3.36%. Manufacturing bounded back big time with +2.6%, the best figure since July ...

RBI Frees Us From “Address Proof” Idiocy

One of the worst things about India is the need for a valid “Address proof”. For people who live on rent, this is a bane – the rental agreement is ...

Why Doesn’t The Government Sell 50,000 cr. of Shares It Holds in Private Companies?

We’ve been crying hoarse for the government to not be in business, that it needs to “divest” its holding in public sector enterprises. Why aren’t we ...