As the year ended, I was invited to an opening of Imaginarium/Aligunjan, a research and blue-skies thinking facility set up…
In the sale of public assets or goods, the govt must spell out whether the principle underlying is maximisation of…
India has not reached its Lewis moment yet (thanks to bad labour legislation). It can absorb capital looking for higher…
Western economies are expected to have slow growth, but stagnant real wages and, very soon, mass unemployment
Xi and Trump understand that for the foreseeable future, the world power order will be a Sino-American duopoly.
What China’s Communist Party Congress, which just finished in Beijing, showed was that China has managed an impossible project.
The Economic Advisory Council which was chaired by Dr Rangarajan during the UPA days was quietly abolished. The finance ministry…
Politicians have finally woken up to the growth slowdown. I wrote about these matters in my last column, but revisit…
India’s jobs problem is tied to its manufacturing stagnation—which in turn is tied to the lack of labour reforms.
While FPTP offers the possibility of a strong government, proportional representation is more fair in terms of voting share.
Future outlook: We may have to look for earning opportunities, rather than ideas; what you must know
With the changing nature of employment itself, we may have to look for earning opportunities rather than jobs.
An ideal libertarian ‘money’ would allow free entry by any producer who can issue . These tokens would compete with…
The larger the state and the more power concentrated at the top, the higher the chances of Big Graft
The global financial markets are in a very peculiar state. The volatility index, VIX, is at its quietest. Inflation is…
The recovery, from the turning point on the cycle nine years ago, has not brought a boom—but there’s no repeat…
Over the last couple of years, elections have taken place where the unexpected , unforecast outcome has come about. Donald…
Its One Belt, One Road initiative is nothing short of this, as it is a low-yield, resource-intensive project.
Macron is a strange phenomenon.
