I have said a lot about Ayn Rand…and here is more. The publishing industry publishes what sells. It need not be good, moral, correct, intelligent,….but people should buy. If they read and buy more, even better. If they can get one company to buy 100,000 copies to be given away free, they actually do not […]
remember this story was written in July 2011….in fact on 10 July…. Did anybody tell Dhirubhai Ambani that he was very lucky? Take a ‘Taleb’ian view on the success of the late Dhirubhai Ambani. He was a simple man, not very educated, perhaps very well focused, and dammit, GODDAMN LUCKY. Make no mistake there may […]
The South Africans are chokers or do they panic? Well all the commentators call them chokers, do they not? Well Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point fame) has come out with the difference between panicking and choking very well. He has used a game of tennis as an example. Akash Chopra (Cricketer) has adapted the concept to […]
Will the US default? Well it makes no sense for the US to default…it has enough money to pay. The President knows they should not default, so let us hope that they do not. However if you are tracking the US economy there is a huge…3 digits billion dollar default happening or about to happen […]
If you are a honest manager in a PSU and you feel for the company and for the country, you better have good writing skills! That is the only way you can vent your feelings for Mr. Praful Patel, Mr. Murali Deora,…etc. these gentlemen have singularly tried (and somewhat succeeded) in killing Air India (Indian […]
Oh no this is not in the Indian context, but when you use Google to tag some stories…you do hit on some interesting stories. A few days back Balakrishnan had written a page on the Moneylife site why you should buy from a bank relationship manager. I said chuckle, chuckle. Had neither the intent, willingness […]
Not sure whether I started the trend…but a few days ago I asked this question. In fact I am not even convinced that I should have dematted my dad’s Tisco, Telco, Coromandel fertilisers, Colgate, …etc. but that is done. Clearly I did it because I saw it was way to easy to demateralise shares of […]