1. the 3G scam 2. many fertilizer scams 3. food grains – procured poor quality grains at very high prices. Now rotting 4. DGCA scam 5. Can get any loan for any amount from a PSU bank scam what is common to all these scams is simple. There is one babu who has a secured […]
This is an old joke – and you will find it on the net… Albert Einstein went to heaven and God introduced him to 3 people. AE asked the first person ‘What is your IQ?’ he replied – 190 sir! AE said ‘we can discuss my physics theories’..he asked the second person the same question..the […]
Frankly I do not have an answer…but let us see what can happen. Lots of people who have made money on the up ride from 9k to 20k whom I know are happy to sit on cash earning 10 to 10.5% p.a. interest. See the IDBI bank ad – it is screaming a rack rate […]
“Past performance is not an indicator of future performance” — the literature of every mutual fund you own, mentions something to this effect. In fact once, when I was lecturing at a mutual fund house, which was not performing well, one of the managers said, jocularly, “Can we say our past non-performance is not an […]
‘Get a good degree, get a job in a government organisation, the government itself or in a psu bank.’ Universally brilliant advise to all girls from mothers. Alas, no longer accurate or correct. Thanks to my friends, colleagues, family…I do not know too many people in the government, psus, etc. I know only 4-5 with […]
This is a fantastic headline to catch people’s attention, that is all. I have no clue whether the market will go up, go down, remain sideways,….NO CLUE at all. I mean it, really. I was in a bank class when the index had reached 10,000 (year 2008 I think?). One of the kids asked me […]
As far as my view on the economy is concerned, frankly it does not matter. Here I am with Peter Lynch – if I spend 10 minutes on finding out how the economy is doing, I think I have wasted 7 minutes at least. However there is too much media, student, colleagues, friends pressure to […]