Your daughter earns Rs. 44,612 per month as take home salary. You were initially very happy and proud about this. Then 3 months passed, you got her passbook updated, and noticed that she had a balance of 29, 643. You thought it was about Rs. 100,000 short 🙂 What happened? Well there was a phone, […]
This is not MY original article, but a cut paste from Steve Siebold’s book How Rich People think. However the dark portion is his, the other text is not his, it is just some edited commentary including by yours truly… 21 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than Average People World’s richest woman Gina Rinehart is […]
Gold is under tremendous pressure internationally, so India may also see Rs. 25000 (just speculating, actually no clue) but Swaminathan A Aiyar says so in Economic Times. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/swaminathan-s-a-aiyar/gold-to-be-a-lousy-investment-in-the-next-decade/articleshow/19537567.cms I am not commenting on the price of gold at all. I do not think that to be a good investor you need to be playing the […]
This is not restricted to US or India, it is a world wide phenomenon, but let us take a hypothetical case of a nice honest, hardworking lower – middle class American. He started life long ago and lived in the usual American style. Let us say he took a huge mortgage and bought a big […]
Let us look at some things which were heralded as a fantastic solution for a problem. Then we will see how these have NOW become problems and not a solution as it should have been. Insurance, Home loan, car loan, educational loan, derivatives, leverage, credit cards, ………….. Look at business Insurance. It is a brilliant […]
Every business has to have an office. Preferably in Mumbai or New Delhi. This could of course be rented, but many of them prefer to buy it. They need CAs, advertising agencies, car hire companies, and zillions of other service providers. Where should the service providers be located? In Mumbai or Delhi. Then it needs […]
I wish I could do an article like that in India. I have always been screaming that we do not have enough good quality publicly available data. Does not matter whether I am talking about investing, saving, spending,….read this data driven article by Motley Fool http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/06/15/4-shocking-examples-of-the-decline-of-the-middle-.aspxÂ