I have been accused of the following: Keeping gold prices low. People losing out chance to buy gold/ land / real estate because of my writing. Hilarious because I have rarely taken a stand for or against. I do not consider it for my portfolio – SHOULD mean nothing for you. I have consumed about […]
For students of Economics, there used to be a concept called ‘Free Market’. The USA was considered to be the home of free markets along with old democracies like France, UK, Japan and the like. Many economists believed that the Free Market was never born, but that is debatable. After much thought, searching and with […]
Shariah Investments in my portfolio, no thanks! Benchmark Mutual fund announced a Shariah compliant fund recently. Of course many mutual funds (Reliance, UTI, to name 2) are all in the process of launching and managing a Shariah compliant fund. What is a Shariah compliant fund? And what does it do? Shariah, the religious law of […]
Over the last 2 days I heard a few stories. Quite stunning, I should say – either I am too old or the newer generation of people think completely differently from what I think. Let me narrate them. The first is a fine example of why the Americans are in a financial mess. There is […]