First of all, I hate predicting – especially if it is about the future! Having said that it is necessary to look at some of the over optimism that is there in the market and at some of the problems too. So today let us look at the issues: A stagnating Europe and USA will […]

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I am not getting into whether the future is very bright or very bleak. That is not the aim. Clearly the world that matters i.e. the so called developed world is living beyond its means, and the rest of the world does not know what to do. The Greeks classify everything as a dangerous profession […]

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Whenever I look at the airline industry I wonder how they make money…for the shareholder. All airlines buy planes from the same companies, fly to the same airports, recruit from the same talent pool (well largely), have the same set of shareholders….how will the end product be different? Well I have no clue, but I […]

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The US gives us a feeling of being rich. It reminds me of what Sharad Pawar once said about the Congress (he had just quit Congress about a month ago). S P said “Congress is like the Indian zamindar (landlord)…the zamin(land) is gone, but the zamindari (landlord like behavior) is still there”. Exactly the same […]

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When we do a class on debt markets one important class is that of Debt Rating. There we say the highest and the best borrower is rated AAA. However we do not even ask – the Sovereign debt is not rated. It is supposed to be above default. When the Japenese companies were running huge […]

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