Is Warren Buffet wrong and seen as slipping? Well I could never read Snowball –  i thought it was too boring. But now I have renewed respect for the author, so may read it http://epaper.dnaindia.com/showstory.aspx?queryed=3&querypage=6&boxid=30690538&parentid=115947&eddate=May%20%206%202010%2012:00AM However I may not agree with Alice on the Goldman Sachs case. There is too much heart burn all over […]

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One reader called this column “Malice towards one and all” . Sorry Kushwant Singh, you are not alone. I have also done a ‘Round and About’ and started in on a Saturday by saying…”All this is my own work…..”Sorry Busybee, sorry Late Beheram Contractor. Let us check out some history of investor protection. It is […]

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Guru Purnima or Poornima is a very important day for all of us…because we are all students all our life. In fact the people I know who do not grow old are people who keep finding new things to do…so keep learning! One amazing Guru story is attributed to Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Kanchi. One journalist […]

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By the time you read this you will know who is India’s next prime minister. However I am writing this at 8 am on 16th May. CNN IBN is not a channel of first choice – especially when there is an election. However while flipping channels I came across this channel where Rajdeep Sardesai was […]

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If you are a journalist life has become easy these days. All you have to do is to find One incident and do a big story. I mean the story of N Sundaresha Subramanian in DNA Money done on April 02, 2009. It is a story on how Birla Mutual Fund (the Amc) is bending […]

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Myth: Time in the market is more important that timing the market. This says that the longer you stay invested, the more chances of you making money. Again, only partly true. Good investors know that timing is all. While no one can call market peaks or troughs correctly all the time, we all can figure […]

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About 20 days back 2 senior politicians told me the trust vote would go through comfortably. One was from Congress and the other from BJP. One senior journalist also told me that the trust vote would go through. However, none of them were correct about the margin of votes. That is the problem about predictions […]

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