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Sell Indian companies our dollars; get rid of "reserves"

From ET: Minister of State for Industry Ashwani Kumar said the government will consider Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata’s proposal of setting up a special ...

Mayhem on the bourses!

What madness. Sensex closes around 8600, Nifty at 2550. We haven’t seen these levels for a long long time now, have we? We are now down 40% in a month. ...

Banks take you for granted

ET: 6 things your bank will never tell you: You are a valued customer only till you have not availed the services of a bank or till the bank is hoping to gain ...

Crude Realities of Speculation

From RedOrbit: High Oil Prices, It’s all about Speculation: “Thunder Horse started pumping from a single well on Saturday and on schedule to have ...

"Pompous Prognosticators" you might recognize

You want to read this post by Colin Seymour: Read the full post to see what people said in various times. Nearly every time they said that the future looked ...

Can’t Believe Financial Statements Anymore

From FT (tip: Marc’s blog): Rules regarding how banks account for off-balance sheet interests are “irretrievably broken”, a senior group of ...

Dishonest Truths

Ajit Dayal’s latest article in “The Honest Truth” talks about how Quantum, the mutual fund house he owns, invests in “value”. I ...

Buffet's Warning: Bad Year Ahead

Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder letter: You may recall a 2003 Silicon Valley bumper sticker that implored, “Please, God, Just One More Bubble.” ...

Should You Buy On A Bonus/Split Announcement?

At the Moneyoga blog, Kaushik has a post on a strategy: Buying Bonus/Split stocks, Profitable? The strategy is simple: When stocks announce a bonus or a split, ...

Real Estate in India – Not Quite The Same As The U.S.

Very good comment by Bhaskar, to my last post: RM by definition is a floating rate loan. However, Hybrid ARMs are common products in the US and is the ...