Hey the US markets were booming in 2007 and it is booming again in 2013. Is there a take away? Is the 2013 boom the same as 2007? is there a learning to be had from the previous time? Well 2008 – the bad news about Europe was surely not in the price. The other […]

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I was talking about frugality to a guy whose knowledge of English does not include this word. Here he was all 29 years of age, not a penny saved, married to a woman who was spending most of her income. Earnings of this couple was in the region of Rs. 20 lakhs per annum and […]

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If you are a Value Investor – one of the best times to be buying is when everybody is writing you off. So if the power failure in north India was bad, you should have seen the coverage by the international press! They made it look like..OMG this country wants to be a super power? […]

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It is easy to sit in India and look at the problems in America and Europe. For many of us it has also become fashionable and say: -Americans do not know how to save, many of them do not study enough, …etc..etc But PLEASE do remember it is the economy which is closest to reality. […]

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You could take an optimistic scenario or a pessimistic scenario for 2012 and in the years to come… Let me see….here I think PESSIMISTICALLY what can happen: 1. Collapse of the European Banking system: just because it is unable to bear the load, the banks will just collapse. In fact on 24th of Dec the […]

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  Most economists you meet or read tell you that the US problem is worse – much worse- than the Euro problem. Many of us think that the Americans have pushed the dollar too far and it has to fail. The American debt, the American bank’s date and the NINJA credit cards, NINJA educational loans, […]

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The amount of borrowing that the ‘West’ – including US and Europe have as of today is scary! The US and Japan will need about 5 and 3 trillion respectively in the next year (2012) – to remain where they are. Funny that the same countries who were telling the EAST -( in 1997) are […]

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