I have spent half a century on the planet so have a lot of friends, classmates, cousins, friends who have spent similar amounts of time on planet earth. I have a lot of friends who are runners, and cyclists too. A few days ago one young friend was cribbing about the price of petrol. […]

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There are such dangerous things that people write, tweet, sms or talk to me about, I keep wondering from where they learn it. I guess it must be from some of the teachers in school, college or worse business schools. If you learn wrong things about physics or chemistry you will learn quickly and will […]

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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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When I wrote in 2006 ‘you should take a term life insurance of Rs. 1 crore’ many people wrote to me saying: – he must be a life insurance agent – this is not for the middle class…how can we pay thousands of rupees premium? – if we put all our INVESTMENTS in life insurance, […]

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Reader: Sir is Hindalco a good company? Subramoney: Yes, of course. R: Good i bought it at Rs. 240. S: Hmm good. What is the price of the share now? R: Such a good company sir, I thought you would know the price! It is Rs. 174 now…(not sure about the date – a few […]

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Not sure whether I am alone in crying hoarse about the pending US default…but I always get some support from the American media! One of the biggest players in the American bonds market (perhaps the largest) is as skeptical about the bonds issued by Uncle Sam… let us take the worst case scenario of the […]

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