Well none of us know what next…but let us look at the crystal ball: – we all knew that there were scams. Some have come out, many have not yet. – a scam eruption HAS to by definition bring the markets down – as an acknowledgment of the eruption. – markets could remain low / […]

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I did my CA so long back that in those days flying was considered risky and sex was considered safe! Well I did my articles in a firm called Sharp & Tannan. When our senior partner used to ‘finalise’ the accounts in his rather luxurious room WE have seen the clients sweat. He predicted the […]

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I hate giving tips…and hate people asking for tips. When a person who does not know me from adam sends a mail saying “I have L&T bought at 1485…what should I do now?”.  Sorry, I can only delete the mail. I need to know a person before I can recommend anything to him or her. […]

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Either the tolerance level is low for the kids I meet…or I have forgotten how a 24 year old thinks. Most of them are confident of getting new ‘jobs’ or are not too worried about sitting at home waiting for a job. However I know of kids who have good jobs (my point of view) […]

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HERE is a story in marathi…on the power of compounding! http://onlinenews1.lokmat.com/php/detailedsuppliment.php?id=Oxygen-57-1-21-01-2011-7228b&ndate=2011-01-21&editionname=oxygen

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This is a very old story…you can attribute the wise man to be Moses, Buddha, Tenali Raman, Birbal….choice is yours. The story goes like this…. There was a man who was digging a well. He was hoping to strike water soon. One man came up to him and said ‘Arre you are digging for water […]

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I was wondering whether the title should have a ‘?’ after the word status, then decided against it ! Any other country in the world with the same statistics as USA would have been down graded..a few notches. However all the credit rating companies (you have to smirk when you talk about them) are based […]

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