It is customary for older people to talk about the loose morals of the younger generation, the increased corruption, and lamenting ‘In our times things were not as bad’. Frankly some of the horror stories that I have heard in banking channels makes me wonder, if I have no clue of the eps, why bother […]

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If you are in the financial services business or in the Information Technology business, remember competition can come from anywhere. When SGX saw an opportunity in the Nifty futures, they said, lets do it. Now while NSe has to get up every morning and worry about service tax, stt, Gaar, ..and well an occasional bandh […]

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I have said a lot about Ayn Rand…and here is more. The publishing industry publishes what sells. It need not be good, moral, correct, intelligent,….but people should buy. If they read and buy more, even better. If they can get one company to buy 100,000 copies to be given away free, they actually do not […]

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Having been in the financial services industry for a long time has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are you know many people. In fact too many people. So when a product is launched or being launched you get a sneak preview. I had got a sneak preview of the NPS’s rates. Looked too good […]

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I was wondering whether the title should have a ‘?’ after the word status, then decided against it ! Any other country in the world with the same statistics as USA would have been down graded..a few notches. However all the credit rating companies (you have to smirk when you talk about them) are based […]

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