Here is what a qualified financial adviser told me: Subra, you have no clue at what price HUL makes soap, Colgate makes toothpaste, Jet Airways is able to create the flying service….SO THEY ARE ALL MIS-SELLING. If hospitals, banks, airlines, manufacturers of all products are mis-selling what is wrong if there is mis-selling in financial […]

Amazing how we keep saying we need FDI. Initially, say 10 years ago, Mr. BiG Bazaar did not want FDI in retail and Mr. Jet Airways did not want FDI in civil aviation. They successfully (lol!!) kept Singapore Airlines-Tata combine from forming an alliance. Awesome lobbying………….or whatever else it was. The media does not want […]

Principally I have liked what Robert Kiyosaki means when he says ‘home and car are not assets, because they cost you money’ But other than this I have not liked many of his philosophies. Some of the strategies like leveraging and trading on gold (it may have even made money for me if I had […]

This is for those people who have read the book… a. What more would you expect in a retirement book? b. what changes do you want? c. if i were to come out with the next edition…what more should be included? please reply soon…….it will be well appreciated….thanks.

One of the main reasons that people do not think of an early retirement is two fold – a) they do not understand what is RETIREMENT and b) the get goddamn scared seeing some of the calculators on the web Retirement is a state of mind that allows you to tell your boss ‘F you, […]

This is a post about ethics more than it is about sales. Look at Lance Armstrong, arguably the world’s greatest cyclist. A cancer survivor. Doper. Completely ignored the drug testing people, could not care about them. They in turn left him alone. Lance had a private doping doctor. An amazing fighter – who is now […]

I get asked this question at least ONCE A WEEK, if not once a day….   There is a huge advantage in writing a book on Retirement….almost everybody who knows about the book walks up to ask : When do you think I can retire? The answer is so simple. I need to know the […]