When all of us feel that there is no risk, risk happens. Like all of us were sure that the markets will go from 21000 to 25000 it went to 9000. Market is a great humiliator -and exactly when you feel you have understood it all, it slaps you. At times it hits you in […]
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 […]
Banks lending in rural India is a great thing to have happened. Most people who borrow are genuine -but there are some politically supported borrowers too. The main reason why a person in India (or in any part of the world too!) repays the loan is ‘because it is the right thing to do’. This […]