1. Suddenly many jobs are being lost: Remember slowing down, closing down are not words that happen only to somebody else! It happens to the best. Only your salary is certain, the variable salary is really variable. I now know of several people who are EARNING about 60% of their claimed CTC. The variable […]

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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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Yesterday a few people were screaming on Times Now….volume was down – I was watching cricket – so just saw a glimpse. I recognised Kiran Bedi..none of the others. It looks like Indians are losing patience with the government – and the government is not bothered. Be it the arrogance of Kapi Sibal, Pranab Mukherjee, […]

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XBRL training is a big event happening in the corporate world – especially amongst the financial executives. Let us get somethings very clear. It is necessary to file your Annual Return in xbrl format. This is a company secretary’s responsibility, but the work will have to be done by an accountant. It is obvious that […]

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No this is not an article of whether you should buy life insurance from a bank or from an agent…it is just leading to an article on MoneyLife. Agents tell me ‘we cannot sell a wrong product to the customer, because we have to go to the same guy again and again, but bank managers […]

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Are we in a bear market or in a bull market? Frankly nobody has been able to answer this question when the market is on! 3 months or 6 months later everybody will tell you that “May 2008 to Oct. 2008” we were in a bear market, however now we are in a bull market. […]

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As some of us have been saying, we’re witnessing the unwinding of one of the greatest financial bubbles of all time. Not just in India – much more so in the USA. Yet home prices will not simply go to zero like some shares did.(Remember Mazda, Silverline, Shaan, Indiana Dairy?) However DLF shares fell from […]

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