For students of Economics, there used to be a concept called ‘Free Market’. The USA was considered to be the home of free markets along with old democracies like France, UK, Japan and the like. Many economists believed that the Free Market was never born, but that is debatable. After much thought, searching and with […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjn_o-SZcsc there was a competition in Japan between a Japanese film maker and my niece Divya …needless to say she won…hence the link 🙂
Thanks to my historic interest in equities, I have some strong views on equity…like the following: a. a small broker cannot make money in broking alone b. a big broker can make money by MONEY lending to traders c. equity is a good investment in the long run d. short term trading is NOT investing […]
How people love a rising market! So one good day and the world wants to announce that the worst is behind us. My foot. Remember it took a long time for the world to recover from the Lehman collapse – a company who had an audited balance sheet. When it comes to countries, you […]
The amount of borrowing that the ‘West’ – including US and Europe have as of today is scary! The US and Japan will need about 5 and 3 trillion respectively in the next year (2012) – to remain where they are. Funny that the same countries who were telling the EAST -( in 1997) are […]
‘Subra you did a post on do not trust an employee…can we trust a big branded financial company?’ asked a reader. Of course you can trust a big financial company as long as you can remember that: MF Global misplaced US $ 633 Million (or was it Billion or Trillion – when it comes to […]
Nobody believes that tech stocks can do well in 2010, correct? This comes from 2 fears – US recovery will not be too great and that the dollar may weaken. Let us look at the dollar – it looks like the dotcom boom – when we were all sure that the tech stocks can only […]