Men are men – you see the Seagram ad, do you not? I have seen just too many men living beyond their means. This they do by lying to their wives – and living it up. This becomes even easier when the husband is in business. The wife only understands cash flow – so […]

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When a rich person (when I say rich I mean a person with a level of net worth – not a level of spending) spends frugally – is he being miserly or being sensible? Frankly I do not know and do not really worry about what other people think – but to me many of […]

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I think this is not an article, this is a caveat. When you read my articles, please understand that I suffer from the following biases: 1. City bias: I have lived my life in the comfort of a city with good infra. The infra has been deteriorating over a long period of time, but I […]

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There are many kids of today whose parents still believe: – PSU jobs are safe and the best -dealing with a government agency is good, because they will not cheat you Sure Psu jobs are the best -ask the retiree from Air India who has not been paid his dues…for the past few years. So […]

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A few days back I wrote a piece on ‘Young, Glamorous, Riskless and Broke’. This was about the kids born in the 1980s. Let us take a kid born in 1987 – would have graduated in 2007-8 and finished his/her MBA in 2009. This was not a great season to graduate, but would have found […]

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this was written in 2007-8 and appeared in an abridged form in moneycontrol ….   Hello, Congrats on the nice job you have got! With a degree from an Ivy League school this was a nice job to land. I know you have majored in Finance and are hoping to make money by the tons. […]

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This is a story that I have heard…and from very authentic sources, so I believe it is true. There was one Mr. S who had inherited about 2000 acres of land in a village in Tamil Nadu. Typically, he was a rich man and also added some more land to it and was very prosperous….When […]

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