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On Vacation: Stepping Back in Time

I’m on vacation, in Goa for a few days so posting will be slow this week. Goa is my favourite place to holiday. And even after two kids, the costs of a ...

The New Age of Age-Old Capital Controls: Cyprus Edition

Cyprus is getting ready to impose capital controls from tomorrow, when their banks reopen after about 10 days of being shut as the EU considered bailing them ...

The Unwinding of Cyprus (Or, “Sigh” Prus)

As we now know, the ECB and other mad European countries have been urging Cyprus to accept the bailout plan that requires all bank deposits to take a 9.9% ...

Don't Buy What You Don't Understand

Okay, I’m up to here with relationship managers and financial advisors and the like. In the process of assessing a new business opportunity in providing ...

[Ad] Special Offer for CM Readers: 20% off on Mobile Accessories

DailyObjects.com, an online Mobile Accessories store, has a special offer for Capital Mind Readers. They are offering a discount of Rs. 200 for a purchase of ...

OT: Speaking at Traders' Carnival

I will be speaking at a Trader Conference called "Traders’ Carnival", being conducted by J. Dharmaraj (@ra1nb0w). I’ll speak on the ...

BCCI Cancels Deccan Chargers' Contract, DCHL in the Very Deep End

The DCHL woes have no end – actually, now it’s the woe of the bankers to Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited that are crying now. BCCI – the ...

India, A Country Of Thieves?

A recent article by John Hempton tells us that China is a Kleptocracy: China is a kleptocracy. Get used to it. I start this analysis with China being a ...

Veritas-Indiabulls Fight: The Employee Welfare Trust

Veritas, the Canada based research company that dug out dangerous details about DLF and RCOM, has targeted IndiaBulls now, stating that Indiabulls has created ...

OnMobile’s Fall From Grace: A CEO Greed Story

Forbes has an excellent article on what went wrong at OnMobile. It was a certain Mr. Arvind Rao, it seems. On November 23, 2010, Arvind Rao, the 53-year-old ...