MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 1-7, 2025
Cleaning up a mess is far harder than making it
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Increased import tariffs by Trump on China were widely expected. In his election campaign he had vowed to impose up...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 25- 31, 2025
Future Economic Growth will be Technology Led
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A Chinese startup called DeepSeek launched two AI models, V3 and R1, creating waves because of their significantly lower costs than...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 18-24, 2025
Petty bureaucratic tinkering
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The ongoing Mahakumbh mela at Prayagraj, a month long religious gathering, is expected to be attended by 400 million people. That is a more than the population of the...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 11-17, 2025
A correction was due, but our leadership should govern seriously
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There were several reasons for the recent drop in Indian stock markets. The BSE Sensex dropped from 79943 on Jan...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 4-10, 2025
Will Atlas shrug?
‘Atlas Shrugged’ is a fictional tome, authored by Ayn Rand, describing a country being led to destruction because of woke policies, ones that discourage enterprise and reward sloth. In Greek mythology, Atlas...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 28, 2025 - Jan 3. 2025
Hope for more trade and less war
The new year, 2025, has begun with potentially huge changes in geopolitics, in trade and economics, in technology led transitions and in global finance....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec21-27, 2024
Geopolitical factors influence investor options
Governments in several countries have either toppled or are in turmoil. In Germany, the strongest economy in the EU, Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a no confidence vote, leading to early elections....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 14-20, 2024
Improved productivity is the only option left to reduce debt
The G7 countries, (USA, Japan, Germany, France, U.K., Canada and Italy) is a classification of the large Western countries by their GDP. All are democracies....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 7-13, 2024
It can solve societal problems or can create more
Speaking at an NDTV World Summit, Sunil Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, told the audience about how he was nearly defrauded by a scammer who used...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 1-7, 2024
Will lead to disaster
The foolishness of myopic world leaders would be funny were it not so dangerous. For, they are driving the world towards disaster. At the very least financial disaster. At worse, nuclear...