HA ha….most of you know where this question will head right? The latest documents from the Fed reveal that they did not understand what is happening in the Economy. I always knew it – and those following me on FB know my views about the regulators in general and Fed in particular. For a momentary […]
Let us accept some facts early on: There are more bankruptcies than billionaires… We do not have any data about Indian investors, but MORE than agree with Sucheta Dalal and Moneylife that the number of investors have dwindled. This is terrible for the economy, but clearly a regulatory failure. Since we do not know by […]
This is a result of being in the 4th decade of my investing life. Not all the lessons were personally learnt – some where learnt from the reading, teaching, talking, dreaming, writing, commenting about investing. So if you see some points from other authors, writers, commentators do not feel outraged. We both may have […]
It is customary for magazines, blogs, television channels….to start writing about investment resolutions for 2013. So the month of December is about thinking of what resolutions to make. I am not sure what the others do, but for me this is really easy. Go to 2008, 9, 10…12 and cut and paste. Not that I […]
One more set of people who deserve to be cheated…… ‘Subra this representative came and explained the product to me…..I hated it. However as the bank was giving me a loan, I said ‘give me a LEAST damaging product’. He explained a product ‘X’ but i seem to have got product ‘Y’. Me: why did […]
The most important learning from Robert Kiyosaki is you cannot do a cut and paste in life. I have been an investor, done some trading, been in equity research, sold equity shares, done equity placements, been a sub-broker, and been a main broker. Seriously there cannot be a greater all round view of the market. […]
Let me start by saying this again “Short Term Thinking Hurts” and hurts bad. Let us take some examples: There is a wedding where food is served. Of course there are sweets, and very attractive food – well laid out, smelling good, looking good…and of course there is a huge salad table also. There is […]