In the hubbub of news of various central banks trying to prevent a sharp appreciation of their respective currencies, portents…
Chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man?. Henry Adams captures the current state of economic…
Economists have developed a taxonomy of the growth-inflation tradeoff: supply- and demand-led inflation, deflation, stagflation, and so on.
RBI?s efforts in managing and controlling inflation are sometimes described as Sisyphean.
The importance of the downgrade of the outlook for US long-term sovereign credit ratings from stable to negative by Standard…
The Economic Survey was awaited with unusual anticipation this year, not just as a strategy document of the Union government…
Given the increasing importance of markets in India?s economy, the need for an accurate reflection of economic reality, in order…
The dismay at the steep increase in airline fares has not been as vocal as the outrage over the 2G…
RBI continued its pause on policy tightening, as expected, its discomfort with the extent of current liquidity tightness overriding its…
The US Federal Reserve is obviously following the creed of Tagore?s Ekla Chalo. The extraordinarily vocal criticism, in the run-up…
The RBI leaning against the wind is not likely to make a material difference to the direction of the rupee…
Coinciding neatly with the second anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, the…
The report of the working group on foreign investment is yet another step in the process of rationalising India?s capital…
Signals from multiple economic and financial markets data released over the past week suggest that there is now a case…
The efforts of policy authorities to tamp down inflationary expectations have begun to appear Sisyphean.
A monetary policy review normally attracts less attention than the first annual statement of policy for the forthcoming…
The Union government has taken a courageous step towards implementing many recommendations of the Kirit Parikh…
Multiple financial sector reform measures are being debated and progressively implemented in various countries.
