I meet all kinds of kids – and it is worth seeing their attitude towards money and their parents…. Some kids think that their parents owe them a living! Some kids hate spending their parent’s money – even a farthing! This is not about their attitude, it is about their ability to communicate with […]

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Yesterday I met a guy who has been a bear for a long time…Last year Dec 2011 he had told me the following: 1. Volumes will shrink in 2011, and a few brokerage houses will go down. 2. I had asked him “Is Reliance a good buy at about Rs. 12oo”. He said why not […]

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The Central Government has something called a fiscal deficit. This has to be funded. The market borrowing of the Central Government is met by issuing dated securities (called G Sec) and 364 day Treasury Bills. This is normally done by issue of a slew of G Secs, T bills, by holding auctions. Money is raised […]

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Well this is not a ‘how to guide’ – just a talk that I had with a ‘turn around’ specialist. I met him at a social function and what he said was interesting. Hence the blog article. Many of the things he told me were intuitive. So I will not dwell on things like cut […]

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A senior executive from a leading private sector bank met up for lunch. One of the topics that came up was “Will gold prices go up?”. He immediately said, YES, SURE, it will shoot up if we sell more gold. Intrigued, I asked him to explain. He told me a story of one PYT that […]

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A senior executive from a leading private sector bank met up for lunch. One of the topics that came up was “Will gold prices go up?”. He immediately said, YES, it will shoot up if we sell more gold. Intrigued, I asked him to explain. He told me a story of one PYT that the […]

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