Not sure how many people saw the news item of AIG wanting to sue the New York Fed for ‘bailing’ it out of the fiscal mess. Well it is not AIG, but its ex CEO Mr. Hank Greenberg who controls Starr International who is keen on the suit filing. If you are an American tax […]
In 2008, GE was desperately calling the US Finance secretary to say ‘we are about to default’ AiG was bailed out so that Goldman Sachs could be saved AiG was paying its traders (hold your breath 30% of Revenue) for bringing deals, mind you not a %age of profits, but gross revenue JP Morgan, Morgan […]
Well we all have heard this right? If you see the amount of money Coke, Pepsi, Citibank spend on lobbying in the US, you know how much of wrong doings they must be doing. The food industry, pharma, insurance, banking, auto and of course the lobbying industry are really the villians in US. It is […]
When we were younger – in school and college, the White man spoke DOWN to us telling us what is right and what is wrong. Now we know that Dr. ManMohan Singh is better than Obama, and all our RBI governors are far, far, far superior to Ben Bernanke and his great predecessor! We of […]
Are the Indian promoters who destroy shareholder wealth the worst in the world? Or are there some who are worse than that? In the American context there were AIG, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae… or should we talk about the worst environmental disaster by BP? Well well, the list is long is […]
English is a very beautiful language. And unlike excel allows you to be as unprecise as you wish. Imagine running an advertisement driven business. You need everybody to advertise. So if you choose one scheme – you are antagonising 54 other schemes in that category. SO if you are serious, you should not run a […]
A friend says it would be great if you could choose where to be born and as what. If you were born in 1900 you should have been born in England. If you were to be born in 1950 you should have been born in US. If you were born in 2000 you would be […]