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Is the Indian Internet a Bubble?

With the valuation at Flipkart going to $1bn, that is the question. $1bn is 4,500 crores, more than the other “real” internet company listed in ...

When You Can't Believe Your Eyes…

(From my column at Yahoo) Are we in control of our own decisions, asks Dan Ariely, in a TED talk. He demonstrates how irrational our brain is, showing people ...

June 2011 Manufacturing PMI Down to 55.3

The HSBC Markit June Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) shows some level of deceleration in growth. It’s fallen to 55.3 from last ...

Dirty Money Is Not Just Black

(From my column at Yahoo!) We complain about black money. For most of us, black money is money in suitcases, printed notes of currency. We imagine that there ...

Chinese Housing Prices Are Down, Indian Are Up

From the WSJ: The Great Property Bubble Of China May Be Popping After years of housing prices gone wild, China’s property bubble is starting to deflate. ...

Inflation Back To Crazy Revisions

Primary Articles Inflation (which is mostly food, and is about 20% of the overall inflation figure) came in at 11.52% for the week ended May 28. (We only get ...

Stop Buying Dollars, Curb Money Supply & Inflation

The RBI is unhappy about inflation, it seems. To a large extent, inflation is caused by an increase in the money supply, largely by the central bank adding ...

Indian May PMIs Show Slowing Growth

HSBC-Markit have released the India PMIs (Purchasing Manager Indexes) for May 2011. The overall composite PMI came in at 57.7, down from 60.7 in April. Above ...

At Yahoo: The Unnecessary Prepayment Penalty

At Yahoo I write on The Unnecessary Prepayment Penalty. (Reproduced) With the RBI restricting the number of banks, and then who can own banks, they effectively ...

My Retirement Plan Sucks

For a person that writes on money, and who doesn’t really have “regular” income, I’m a strange guy. I talk about how you should save ...