In 1961, when Kennedy became President, the US was going through a recession. The answer was to lower interest rates, but since rates were higher in Europe ...
Avinash Celestine is on roll. In a long but very readable piece, he talks about how money is converted from Black to White using stocks. At the helm is the ...
(I write the column “Acting Pricey”, on Pragati. Here’s the original.) We are addicted. We are on steroids. We are now going to face the music. A steroid ...
This is a guest post by Dheeraj Singh. Dheeraj was a fund manager for many years specializing in fixed income. He used to head fixed income at IL&FS Mutual ...
The quality of underlying data is very important when you try to make decisions based on that data. For instance, my friend Karthik Shashidhar writes at ...
There are just three elements to a market or stock prediction that make it useful and tradeable. Direction: Which way will the stock go? Up or down? Intensity: ...
This is the archive for an article I wrote for Pragati, April 2013. In a recent online video by Dan Ariely, I heard of his story about pain. He was a patient ...
The Government has, in its attempt to control gold imports, increased duty on Gold imports to 8%. All this does is increases the price of Gold in rupees, ...
In the recent market run up, I’ve bought a few stocks that looked very much like they were “peaking”. I want to throw a few charts at you and ask you if ...
We’ve all heard about “Quantitative Easing” in the west. The US is printing $85 billion a month to buy government bonds, mortgage backed securities and ...
