Archive for March, 2008

Financial worries?

A bull market creates a happy mind set and a bear market (Ok, Ok, I am not saying we are in one) – whether for a short term or a longer term makes people anxious. Are you financially anxious? How does one deal with financial anxiety?
Well there are many things to do. Your life is [...]

Best books on investing – must read list

Here is a complete and full list of books that I like my students to read. Extremely long, and randomly written i hope to write reviews on all these books and it should be available soon. Some of these book reviews have already appeared in the In house magazine of BSE called Sensex. Some of [...]

Fed’s wrong medicine? Its slow poison

Living in a “socialist” country and having heard slogans like “garibi hatao”, nationalisation, etc. there was some chance that RBI governor does not believe in market economics. But USA? Aw, come on Ben has to believe in free markets, or so we thought. No. He does not.
He comes up with aspirin for patients who need [...]

Children and money: what you need to teach your kids about money

7 money lessons to teach your kids
Tell your kids, ‘Money is the root cause of all good!’ Of course, the line is from Ayn Rand.
We are in the grip of an exam fever with all parents busy with an ‘open day’ in school before the examination. Then, there will be a vacation – Summer vacation [...]

What to do in a falling market? Tips for a sliding market….

By PV Subramanyam
So, what’s a stock market investor’s best response to dropping stock prices?

First, forget about rationalising and explaining (or listening to other people explain) why stocks are falling. It’s a pointless exercise at best, and misleading at worst.

Second, file the painful experience away as a worthwhile reminder of the riskiness of stocks, and [...]

falling markets are a falling knife!

It is so funny that when markets are rising, everybody asks you to buy, and when it is falling everybody asks you to sell! One commentator who unabashedly acused another big investor of “luring” the poor investor into the market (when the index was 7000), then changed his mind to predict 25000, then changed his [...]