Well this note is about Michael Lewis (of Liars Poker fame)…he can write very well for sure Here he is writing about Greek bonds in Vanity Fair…and the article is hilarious. If you think Indian government is inefficient, you will see the Greek government is almost a joke. To call the Greek economy a third […]

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When it comes to Goal setting think of setting goals like an athlete. Let us take the case of a runner…he could set goals for a Personal Best, a meet record, a meet win, running the whole season without injury, managing health and weight within some parameters….this helps. Let us say the meet record of […]

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Americans are very nice people, but one thing is sure their CEOs run their companies for profits! Many of us think this is wrong. Double standards! Warren Buffet lobbies for S&P’s monopoly to continue…and then also keeps selling his stake. Make no mistake I used to be a big fan of WB not very long […]

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Vijay Venkatram of wealth forum …has done a detailed analysis of the mutual fund industry. He is asking a question uppermost in most people’s mind -are the men getting separated from the boys? Personally I wish he had done an analysis with just the equity fund – as one of the tables- which could perhaps […]

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Last week I was travelling and therefore watched Television – and it was Utvi Bloomberg that I watched. Here the very sensible (and not so shrill) Surabhi Upadhyay was doing a program on debt reduction / consolidation. Funnily it is perhaps the only program on the borrowing side. Most other channels and ‘personal finance’ experts […]

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Babar Zaidi is a soft spoken nice person who rarely hits very hard – even in extreme provocation. However he has written an article saying ‘You deserve to be cheated’ in ET Wealth…a good read. I thought writing things like ‘You deserve to be cheated’ is my prerogative…but now I have competition. In life you […]

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If you are cricket fan (even if you are not!) you would have seen Gautam Gambhir being paid Rs. 11 crores + and some other numbers like: Yusuf Pathan: 2.1 Million Dollars, Saurabh Tiwary 1.6 M $, Robin Uthappa, Kevin Peterson, Dumminy, Dravid, Brett Lee…all being paid millions of rupees, if not millions of dollars. […]

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