Since 2001-02, India?s Balance of Payments (BoP) had a surplus on the current account, and thus it remained till the…
Over the past fortnight, there has been much gyration in our stock markets and coincidental raids by tax men on…
Retail prices were raised for gasoline and diesel a fortnight ago, but not by enough to neutralise cost increases on…
First, we had administered prices for refined petroleum products. Oil producers, refineries and marketing companies were central public sector enterprises,…
With the smoke and rubble of several stock market crashes behind us, it does not take much to become a…
Last Thursday, the People?s Bank of China (PBC), announced it was moving away from a peg to the US dollar,…
With the skies darkened by rain-bearing clouds, widespread and abundant rainfall across the country, the southwest monsoon seems set to…
Surprises never cease. Not many might have expected the diverse fallout effects of the French and Dutch public voting down…
The issue of revising the retail prices of petroleum products has taken on the dimensions of an epic, or perhaps…
Four weeks before, we had recounted in this column the coming tussle over the yuan and termed it as the…
There has long been a debate between the libertarian argument for small government and various versions of an enhanced role…
The current US defence secretary came under much fire, some years before, for the analytical distinction that he chose to…
India?s trade deficit for 2004-05 is set to hit some kind of record. If we extrapolate from the second and…
Whoever likes to pay taxes? There must be an alternative world ? a nirvana ? without taxes. Common sense tells…
After Atlantic benchmark crude prices topped $55per barrel (/bbl) in the third week of October last year, there was a…
Fitting an excess of ends into limited means Union Budget 2005 takes off from where the previous one had left…
What is manufacturing?s real prize? It is the expanded home market for consumer goods, both durable and non-durable, and the…
Accelerating economic growth is all about raising the level of current income that is deployed in investments. In the lifeless…
