From all my posts if you have come to the conclusion that I am against PSU companies, you may not be very wrong. Are the employees in these companies to be blamed for their plight? Yes and No. I have known extremely committed and well meaning PSU employees. I used to know a person in […]

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How stubborn can Central Bankers be? It is surprising – and I am not saying it is easy to be a central banker..just commenting. Inflation in the US and UK are about 5% – if you ask the people living there (increasing ‘consumer confidence’ is inflation assisted). However the Central Banks are refusing to believe […]

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I started off as a big fan of Meru….a few years back, not sure about the dates but I think this is circa 2006-7. Used it extensively by standing in a queue at the airport, called them in the morning for going to the airport. Outside of Mumbai, it was clearly THE choice – so […]

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Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co. Ltd. (CIFCO) has done a great deal from the shareholders point of view. They had brought in DBS as a partner by issuing fresh shares to them at Rs. 140 a share. Now DBS has exited at Rs. 90 per share. It looks unfair on DBS but the relationship was […]

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In an earlier post I had spoken about 3 people’s attitude about money. Today it is another set of people. I met a 82 year old lady – very active, agile, smart and with a fantastic memory. She had taken up a job when she was 18 years old for a princely salary of Rs. […]

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