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Published On - September 18, 2024

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The Rupee Dilemma

Date first published: July 28, 2018 We have all heard stories about how, before Independence, the Maharajas used to live the good life abroad and wondered how they could do so when logic says everything foreign was so expensive. Instances of one such Maharajah, who bought a Rolls Royce or maybe a fe...
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Published On - September 18, 2024

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The Rapid Rise of Interest Rates

Date first published: August 29, 2018 So, the mandarins in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) met and took a decision on the interest rates. And the decision was to raise interest rates. Base interest rates are of two kinds – the Repo and the Reverse Repo. The Repo is the interest rate charged by [&h...
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Published On - June 6, 2024

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The grand election festival is over. Let’s move on.

The grand nationwide jamboree lasting nearly 3 months is done and dusted. I, like many others have been glued to all kind of screens – the television, the office desktop, the laptop and the mobile and have consumed hours and hours of television and social media content. So has a large part of the ...
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Published On - May 15, 2024

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The Current Account Deficit. Is it important any more for us?

We all keep on hearing of the Current Account Deficit close to budget time and then sometimes when we switch on the business channel. Most of us know what it is – a measurement of a country’s trade where the value of the goods and services it imports exceeds the value of the products it export...
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Published On - April 30, 2024

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Wars, Elections and such irritants.

When was the last time you have seen a year go by without a war in some form or the other, in some scale or the other happening somewhere around the world. The famous political theorist, Francis Fukuyama, famously commented: the end of the Cold War marked “the end of history,” a triumph of ca...
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Published On - January 2, 2024

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To equity or not to equity

As we come to the start of calendar 2024, it is time to take stock of the current state of the economy and what it holds for us moving forward. But before we delve into the subject let us take some time to describe the astonishing growth the year has given so far. The midcap […]...
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There is nothing right about war, only what is left.

Published On - October 25, 2023

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Making sense of the conflicts and the Markets

It is the season to feel a bit lost for most of us in West Bengal and for many others all over the world. Our favourite daughter had come home with her children and she left us to return to her own house and her husband in the hills. A bit of a respite from […]...
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Published On - October 10, 2023

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Durga Pujo – The Mega economic event every year

Durga Pujo. Ask any Bengali or a Kolkatan and she will turn misty eyed. Enquire after anyone living in Bengal or perhaps the eastern part of the country and she will be busy either making (selling) or buying in the days and weeks leading up to the pujo. There is hectic activity all around and [&hell...
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