With US debt levels climbing to unfamiliar levels, the risk of a crisis looks that much greater.
NGOs tracking the extent of drug addiction in the state unanimously say that it has done more economic damage to…
Novelist and journalist George Orwell, in his 1946 essay ?Politics and the English Language?, wrote, ?Political language is designed to…
If the economy recovers, the liquidity will cause inflation and make lending loss-making. If it doesn?t, there?ll be huge NPAs.
With political consensus in the bag, the Indian govt has no reason not to be investing more in railways, highways…
From now on, all competitors in the smartphone market will be extremely wary of short-cuts to Apple’s success.
If Citi is compelled to split, it will actually be worth more. So the reformed Mr Weill is actually just…
Like spot fixing in cricket, unless penalties are prohibitive & rigidly enforced, it may be difficult to regulate bad behaviour
On July 2, big banks must furnish a ?living will?, which would provide regulators in the US insight and understanding…
The book Policymaking for Indian Planning: Essays on Contemporary Issues in Honour of Montek S Ahluwalia is the second festschrift…
MM Mani?s recent utterances in effect condone macabre acts by Naxals.
The irony is JPMorgan pioneered the metric to measure risk ? VaR ? and even profited from selling its analytics…
There are some concerns but, by and large, increased shareholder primacy is a step in the right direction.
More than 30 years ago, on 27 February 1982, Pranab Mukherjee presented his first Union Budget as FM in Indira…
You need to make yourself employable in order to join this knowledge-intensive economy….
The good thing about being a ?guest? of Kingfisher Airlines these days is that even if you are six hours…
For airlines, it is a standard safety procedure to ask passengers to open their window shades for take-off and landing.
There are lies, damn lies and statistics. Substitute statistics for an armchair economist?s take on financial markets and the adage…
