A very funny problem has cropped up. One reader writes in saying “I am gifting my daughter a car..and she says she wants a better car” what should I do? Tough dilemma. The person asking this question is a friend. Let me describe him. He is a Vee Pee in a big engineering company, aged […]

Many PR agencies ask me if I would tweet about their product or whether I would write a post about their product. Frankly I have no clue how this helps them. In a digital age when likes can be bought, and people believe that reading can make them skilled, I wonder how the words digital […]

I was asked this question many times in 2008. I said ‘I do not know, but it could take 10 years for the market to come to the same level as 2007’. I was wrong of course, but this was based on my previous experience – when it took a very long time for the […]

My best answer to both the questions is the same: The market will go up or go down from here, I do not know. There are 3 answers that you can get at this stage: “The market was too high anyway, look at the PE ratio, so the market has gone down. This is the […]

Many IFAs have got in touch with me recently…a little worried about what is happening in the market. Here is some generic gyaan on what they can do: Explain to clients that NOBODY, nobody, knows what is happening in the market Nobody can say that a market went down by 332 points out of which […]

I did not want to say ‘why are share prices falling’. Like I said ‘falling’ or ‘rising’ are words that I do not like to use. Here is an awesome scholarly article..i am not sure how many of my readers are interested in a scholarly article on share price movement.. Be warned it is a […]

I get personal emails – about 10 a day asking me – which mutual fund to buy, now that we have ltcg TAX should I shift to debt,…but one email type that I am planning to write about today is “how to say no to friends”. Good question. How to tell your friends that you […]