One senior journalist has asked me for my views on India’s financial blogs. I normally do not do such things ….frankly I do not see the purpose. However, succumbing to pressure (or a vicarious pleasure of doing something like this?)…I said yes. Now I have 2 questions to ask all you readers: 1. Which are […]
Very few people even think they need financial advise. The usual reasons why people think (or they tell me) are as follows: 1. I do not earn enough to seek the services of an advisor: Well, well anybody and everybody thinks that their income is just too small for them to seek the services of […]
In most companies the people at the HO hate the guys who go out and sell. Make no mistake most companies hate the sales guys – employees, agents – are just nomenclatures. By any name they are hated. The company – I mean the ‘HO’ people LOVE the cheques they bring, but hate the sales […]
A few days back I did a post asking whether we need a trainer for our physical training. I got a few responses on mail, some on the comments page and some on the phone. Many people did not know what a trainer is supposed to do. Well, a good proper trainer is supposed to […]
My wife unfortunately leaves a lot of money in her savings bank account…so she gets her RM calling her with the usual…’can I do something …’ type of calls. She has been irritated, bored, (scared too) to talk to her RM. So she did a smart thing – she went online and changed her telephone […]
Well we all have heard this right? If you see the amount of money Coke, Pepsi, Citibank spend on lobbying in the US, you know how much of wrong doings they must be doing. The food industry, pharma, insurance, banking, auto and of course the lobbying industry are really the villians in US. It is […]
The world knows that the most profitable business in the world (since Shylock’s times!). Banks have seriously huge margins – just see them borrowing at the bottom from absolutely lazy guys like me (SB a/c 4%) and lend it to absolutely lazy guys who do not even know how to borrow by lending at 25% […]