What Greg Smith said in his resignation letter about GS is not a surprise, is it? How many of you were ‘surprised’ at the tone or the content of that letter? Not sure how this is as a career move for him, but I guess it will work. He will be snapped up by many [...]
Yesterday the Parliament passed the Running Regulator Act, 2012. The Sports Minister said that as more than a Million people had taken to running in Mumbai city alone, and about 10 Million Indians are running all over India, there was a need to regulate the Running Movement. The Regulator will be headed by Mr. Y [...]
A couple of days ago I did a post about ‘skewed rental market’…. and there were many comments. The one I liked best was by a guy named Sanjay Sood. He said “Mr Subra is just misguiding whole generation. No one can gurantee return in any market, may be equity or real estate, Our market [...]
When the economy is not doing well or when a company is not doing well, there is tremendous pressure to reduce costs. The accountants are normally the worst persons to come up with suggestions to reduce costs. They will find simple, stupid costs and act like they have done something great. The normal suggestions are: [...]
I really cannot say why I run this blog. But here the following are NOT the reasons: 1. I have no retail product other than this blog (and the ad revenues are so pathetic that I will not miss it if it goes away). 2. Dealing with retail is very, very, very tough for people [...]
Remember the Slumlord Millionaire movie? Well, they picked up a kid from the slums and made a movie based on the book by the same name. The kid from a slum was scrubbed, cleaned and fitted into a world of ‘clean bodies and unclean souls’. So far fine. Now this kid went from slum to [...]