If you have any doubt about whether we are in a bull market, please go and learn your basics. Or believe me when I tell you that we are! First of all there is NOTHING called a Bull market / Bear market for all the shares. In 2007 end when I was lucky to sell […]

I do occasionally talk about people living a simple life. Let me elaborate, when I say I know a few people who live a simple life, it is not ‘extreme frugalism’ by any stretch of imagination. It is just a life style choice unhindered by the biggest worry of mankind “what will others think”. A […]

For those who are asking when will there be a bull market in India, you need to get your Math in place. This is a good damn #$%^&** bull market. At the beginning of the year the Index was at 20,000, now it is in excess of 28000 – within spitting distance of 30k. It […]

THIS IS A HUMOR COLUMN.  THIS IS A HUMOR COLUMN. THIS IS A HUMOR COLUMN. THIS IS A HUMOR COLUMN. Please not this is a column taking a punt at the WORST thing that has happened for the common investor / saver: too many blogs run by too many jerks who do not understand insurance – life […]

Americans do things in style. So whether it is getting into a financial debt trap, chapter 11 bankruptcy claims, or living far beyond their means, they have a term for all of that. Like subprime. Like lending $700,000 to a person earning $ 17,000 per annum. They create products like “interest only”, “balloon repayments” or […]

I have done many articles on Investor Innumeracy…so now here is one article which says what I normally keep saying… here it is… http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-11-ways-that-consumers-are-hopeless-at-math/259479/?single_page=true

I got into a lift (at about 9 pm) where a very young boy and a young girl were having a conversation….and it went like this: The girl said “U are so lucky you will go home and eat, I have to go cut vegetables, cook for myself and my husband and then eat…it will […]