Dear Investors, When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents “danger”, and the other represents “opportunity”. This is the most accurate way I can express my thoughts and feelings about the coming year in the commodities markets. Volatile, unpredictable yet scattered with times of great opportunity. The prophecy of …
Category Archive: Indian Economy
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Sep
26
Danger Map by Deutsche Bank identifies countries in financial stress
Deutsche bank’s danger map is an representation of financial health of major developed and developing economies of the world. It allots scores on the basis of several financial criteria like Deregulation of lending,%of credit to GDP, Unemployment, interest rates, Exchange rate Volatility, etc. Map shows Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain under the danger zone among …
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Jul
20
Quick List of Global Economic Problems and the Rise of Gold Prices
In one of my post last week Reasons why GOLD is going up; Gold rally continues, I have tried to give reasons why Gold prices are shooting up and why they might go further up in the future. I have mainly dealt with things impacting the Gold prices directly. Three reasons which I gave in …
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Jun
20
Human cost of delayed economic reforms in India
Just came across this paper by Mr. Swaminathan where he tries to find what India lost due to late implementation of economic reforms. Here is an extract from the paper. Full paper can be read at this Link. As the world approaches the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism, it is worth investigating the …
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Jun
20
How Black money came back to India!!
Ever since this debate on black money gained steam in India, I was wondering how can a Swiss Bank keep all the money like that. Money is always in circulation and even more so if it is with bank. Fundamental job of a bank is to take money from one person and give it to …
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Jun
12
Story of Indian Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
In India, hardly a day goes by without a protest or a debate on the country’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy. What is the policy about? Why is it so controversial? What are the main issues of conflict and who are the protagonists? How does the future look for India’s SEZs? Export zones are not …
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May
27
New policy to allow Foreign Banks to expand in India
India has long been a source of frustration for international banks, in large part because regulations limited the number of new branches opened by all foreign banks to just 12 a year. Now, India’s banking regulator is expected to adopt a set of rules this year that will allow foreign banks to vastly increase their …
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