A couple of days ago I did a post saying ‘Earning well but poor part 1’, now here is a sequel… 6. You rely on others to take care of your money: A classmate who is a relationship manager in a bank, or a friendly uncle, or …..hardly matters who. It is nice to say […]

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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 […]

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Not sure how many of you will believe this, but when the DLF scrip was quoting at Rs. 1200, I asked the research head of A BIG broking firm – whether it is worth buying. He said ‘Sir based on MY accounting tolerance this share is worth Rs. 400 based on boss’s accounting tolerance and […]

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Terror strikes Delhi…and a young lawyer, among others is killed. His uncle says…he had to stand in a queue to go in because he had not taken his coat. Fair enough, the human mind thinks like this. However his uncle should perhaps accept ‘If he had to die on Thursday afternoon in a New Delhi […]

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I wrote a post on volatile markets a couple of days back and said: Is the market at a low? can it go to 15,000 – frankly I do not have an answer. today I received a note from Prashant Jain and he has used exactly the same nos. and the same words.. It is […]

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A couple of days back I said there is nothing new to write in personal finance – in my Facebook post. I still stand by it. Seriously there is nothing new that one can write about personal finance which is not already written…However the inefficiency at the execution level – of even well given advice […]

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When we we were in school, we were told we should read the newspaper. So we did read the news paper. Then came 1977 – so Indian Express, Ramnath Goenka and Arun Shourie became a habit. OMG we would even discuss the newspaper. When a letter got published in the ‘letters to the editor’ column, […]

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