The current generation is earning very well – remember most of what people considered as ‘luxuries’ in the 1960s, 1970s, etc. are today considered as a necessity. Also if you consider that in the 1970s when salaries were much lower, and taxation were much, much higher white goods were about 2-3 MONTHS income even for […]
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. Best Investment […]
Which is the worst investment advice that you have ever received? Back in my 20s – when I did not know that I knew nothing about investing (trading I still do not know) I had clients who would seek my advice. Now this advice is kinda addicting. When people ask you give some advice and […]
I interact with a lot of youngsters. I mean from age 21 (fresh graduates), 23 (fresh MBAs) up to the age of 30- and a few who are older too. I would have said Young, Fabulous and Broke – but Susie Orman uses it regularly on her show! I do not think there is a […]
This is not actually a list of books to read..but a sequel to a story I had done long back on books to read… If I remember right, my original list may not included Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, or The Bed of Procruses – all are Taleb’s books. If you are not too keen […]
This is a sequel to the story of a girl who said ‘If I have 10 crores I will be rich’ story. This is a girl who got featured in Lokmat (Marathi newspaper) in a translated story. Here is the sequel. I had asked what could go wrong in the whole process. Well the following […]
Ok This is not about Friedman’s book…it is just that last week I got confirmation of this! In a complex world with a lot of barriers to information flow, it was possible to make money on information arbitrage. Not sure how many readers will believe that in the 1990s it was easy for foreign banks […]