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Thursday 02 May '13Finance minister P Chidambaram last Wednesday assured the investors that he has drawn red lines and the fiscal deficit will be below the 4.8% mark in 2013-14
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Saturday 20 Apr '13There seems to be a new central bank bail-in template that is here to stay, from what can be inferred from the recent statements by G7 central banks and from the crisis resolution in Cyprus.
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Thursday 28 Feb '13Whatever is holding back private sector investment, it is not the cost of borrowing.
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Tuesday 19 Feb '13If Manmohan Singh govt can make railways state-of-the-art, that would be a lasting contribution to India’s infrastructure.
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Tuesday 15 Jan '13In a bid to restart the credit default swap market, RBI last week allowed CDS on unlisted rated corporate bonds in addition to the listed ones.
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Tuesday 25 Dec '12Global economic turmoil will make even a 6% GDP growth for India look optimistic.

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Saturday 22 Dec '12To pull the global economy from the current economic slowdown.
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Friday 30 Nov '12IMF’s paper on Chicago plan envisages creation of debt-free money by govt. But history suggests it could be disastrous.
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Thursday 01 Nov '12With US debt levels climbing to unfamiliar levels, the risk of a crisis looks that much greater.
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Tuesday 16 Oct '12Novelist and journalist George Orwell, in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language”, wrote, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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Friday 28 Sep '12If the economy recovers, the liquidity will cause inflation and make lending loss-making. If it doesn’t, there’ll be huge NPAs.
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Saturday 15 Sep '12With political consensus in the bag, the Indian govt has no reason not to be investing more in railways, highways and the like.
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Tuesday 28 Aug '12From now on, all competitors in the smartphone market will be extremely wary of short-cuts to Apple's success.
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Friday 03 Aug '12If Citi is compelled to split, it will actually be worth more. So the reformed Mr Weill is actually just a smart banker.
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Wednesday 25 Jul '12Like spot fixing in cricket, unless penalties are prohibitive & rigidly enforced, it may be difficult to regulate bad behaviour
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Wednesday 13 Jun '12Last week, IIT Kanpur’s academic senate decided to conduct its own entrance exam in 2013, upping the ante against the HRD ministry by refusing to be part of the Common Entrance Test for all IITs, NITs and IIITs.
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Thursday 17 May '12The irony is JPMorgan pioneered the metric to measure risk — VaR — and even profited from selling its analytics to others.
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Tuesday 01 May '12There are some concerns but, by and large, increased shareholder primacy is a step in the right direction.
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Wednesday 14 Mar '12A lot has changed since the last Rail Budget on February 25, 2011.
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Tuesday 24 Jan '12For airlines, it is a standard safety procedure to ask passengers to open their window shades for take-off and landing.
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Monday 09 Jan '12There are lies, damn lies and statistics. Substitute statistics for an armchair economist’s take on financial markets and the adage may still ring true.
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Saturday 31 Dec '11When Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the US in January 2009, there was some scepticism and cynicism in India as he had expressed quite strong views about outsourcing in his campaign speeches.
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Friday 02 Dec '11At some point, the US will either default or have higher inflation—investors will have to return to emerging markets
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Friday 25 Nov '11Reuters ran a piece on November 17 with the headline “JP Morgan, Goldman have no protection on $5-trillion debt”, which was reproduced by the Financial Express.
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Tuesday 01 Nov '11It was a pleasure to listen to one of the best thinkers and well-wishers of India in the United States—Thomas Friedman—at the Express Adda on Friday.