The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
In his new book, After the Music Stopped, economist ALAN BLINDER offers a history of the financial crisis — its causes and the government efforts to fight it — and provides his prescription for the work that needs to be done to prevent it from happening again. He says the economy experienced a perfect storm beginning in 2007 when the housing bubble burst, the bond market imploded and the U.S. financial system had grown too complex and unregulated for the public good. Blinder has long been an advocate of government intervention and he believes that emergency initiatives like TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program) and the stimulus bill, though far from perfect, helped prevent a total meltdown. Among is recommendations for the future is a ban on the self-regulation of banks and a fix of compensation systems that reward risky behavior. Blinder is a professor of economics at Princeton University ad served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors and as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Guns trained at Russia and everyone engaging with Russia cast as 'evil'. Saudis heckled and threatened. China's major growing industry was brought down overnight and Indian leadership demonized. What is the Biden administration planning for?
Waging Wars - Covert and Overt - by the United States has a formula. Media backs the establishment in planning and execution. A detailed analysis of the various mechanisms and players
Mortgage Revolt due to the real estate crisis in China has hit the banks hard. The manufacturing sector is reeling. Is China a giant Ponzi scheme waiting to unravel?
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