If a Martian spaceship crash-landed in India, its occupants would be thoroughly confused about whether the greater threat to India?s…
Will the Budget aim at the ?impossible dream? of establishing the foundations for generating future surpluses or will it continue…
By allowing FIIs to invest 23% instead of raising FDI cap to 49% compromises economic interests of all foreign insurers.
A start can be made by doing what it takes to get the Insurance and Pensions Bills passed, lifting FDI…
It is the most anomalous case of a country becoming as significant as it is in the world economy without…
Corporate and public governance in China now seems ahead of India?s despite the Bo Xi Lai affair. This is related…
It is the quality of the president that makes or breaks the Bank, not the other way round. However, none…
Since the beginning of the millennium, the decline of the West was expected to be slow and gradual, occurring over…
The convergence of debilitating twin sovereign debt debacles in the US and EU, along with the decline of Japan since…
Three questions vex nervous financial markets/banks around the world: Is Frau Merkel?s belligerently vociferous departure from common sense temporary or…
Their recent behaviour, volatility and febrility suggests that global markets have lost faith in western governments and legislatures.
The perfect storm that erupted with unanticipated fury on August 1 shook the world.
A week is a long time in politics. Two weeks seems even longer in economics.
Reflecting on what has been happening in the EU since the Financial Armageddon in 09/2008, one is ?bemused, bothered and…
Late on Friday, July 15, 2011, the European Banking Authority?a new supranational regulator which seems to be adding to the…
Eurozone debt crisis contagion has spread slowly but surely as foreseen in the FE. It now threatens to pull Italy?EU?s…
The Indian fiscal deficit should be financed openly by the world market and not just by Indian institutions and markets
Unfortunately, the conclusion that since the State?s credit underpins all finance, there is nothing wrong with State-owned institutions dominating financial…
