Head held high, eyes on the stars, nose to the grind, ear to the ground, money where the mouth is, tongue tied, chest out, feet on the ground, have you tried doing all this simultaneously? Really tough…stop listening to the experts! It is a whole long list of lies that I can enumerate (some American, […]

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One of my popular posts is “life insurance simplified” so I thought I will continue to use the same tag line for all my 101 lessons! The number of journalists I know is going up, and the questions I get from them is stunning. The latest – “If Hdfc bank pays 3% interest on a […]

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Americans do things in style. So whether it is getting into a financial debt trap, chapter 11 bankruptcy claims, or living far beyond their means, they have a term for all of that. Like subprime. Like lending $700,000 to a person earning $ 17,000 per annum. They create products like “interest only”, “balloon repayments” or […]

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Yesterday a simple question in the parliment made Icici bank scrip lose about 10% of its value – and recovered 5%. What really happened is a simple accounting necessity for marking down the investment. Let us take an example, I have “bought” a CDO (collatarised debt obligation)- this is  a bunch of borrowers of a bank securitised […]

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