Monday, February 16, 2026
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/budget-2020-govt-needs-to-assure-foreign-investors-with-stable-laws-4853971.html Pre Budget notes #4 t RN Bhaskar  --  24 January 2020 By now, there is no doubt that India is sliding down a slippery slope.  Even the IMF recently downgraded India’s economic growth to 4.8% for the coming year (https://mmb.moneycontrol.com/forum-topics/stocks/sbi/thread-message-79498903-81298903.html).  Privately, economists...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/introduce-the-cash-for-clunkers-policy-soon Revive the economy with speedy judicial redressal and a scrapped vehicle policy RN Bhaskar – 5 September, 2019 Last fortnight, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures that she thought would galvanise the economy. Among them was a roll-back...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-corporate-groups-2-are-they-profitable Money is fine, but is it being profitably used? RN Bhaskar (The first part of this article can be found at https://asiaconverge.com/2021/11/money-makes-the-world-go-round/ A better question would be – are corporate groups making money on money? This is because when money is...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/old-vehicles-scrapping-policy-foreign-exchange-siam-nitin-gadkari-gdp-2795360.html Scrapping old vehicles: cash for clunkers RN Bhaskar -- 23 May 2016 Media reports this morning, quoting a PTI source, referred to Nitin Gadkari, Union minister for surface transport, commenting on the need for an old-vehicle-scrapping-policy. In fact, it is quite possible...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-thin-man-fat-man-the-israeli-army-anecdote-india-would-do-well-to-heed-2486385.html Israel and India: An ancient relationship made in heaven . . . In many ways Israel has reason to feel pleased with the way its innovation strategy has paid off. Ever since it embarked upon the innovation strategy it...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/nps-is-a-low-cost-high-service-oriented-old-age-security-program Asvin Parekh reiterates that NPS is a low-cost, high service oriented, old age security program By S. Narayanan and RN Bhaslkar  --  Monday, December 23, 2019 That is what Ashvin Parekh, Chairman of the National Pension System (NPS) Trust says. This...
https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-fanciful-figures-of-uttar-pradesh/64715.html Uttar Pradesh and the numbers it conjures up RN Bhaskar When prime minister Narendra Modi described the Covid management of Uttar Pradesh (UP) as “commendable”, or even “unprecedented”, it made even the most neutral of economy watchers squirm uncomfortably.  The same...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/when-will-the-budget-provisions-actually-liberate-this-yellow-metal-2507939.html Budget 2018 and gold -- a long way to go yet To understand how significant the provisions of the Budget are, one must go back in the past where gold was largely been treated only as a commodity – albeit...

MARKET PERSPECTIVE by Jawahir Mulraj Oct 18-24, 2020 The coming reset By J Mulraj. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that US Federal Debt would reach $ 20.3 t. by the end of 2020 (US Federal Debt) and also that it would, depending...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/railway-lessons-for-india-with-love-from-japan/ Railway lessons for India: With love, from Japan — By R N Bhaskar | Nov 26, 2015 12:09 am India once boasted of having one of the largest railway networks in the world – thanks to the British. But it slipped in...