Monday, August 10, 2026
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Sep 5-11, 2021 Risk factors investors must be aware of ­­There are some risk factors coming in October, that investors should become  aware of. US Debt Ceiling: US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, despite being 1.6 m tall, is afraid...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj NOV 5-11, 2023 How will emerging technologies help? The price of money, namely, the interest rate is, arguably, the most important factor in any financial decision. It determines the viability of an investment decision, or the wisdom of...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj MAY 24- JUNE 1, 2025 Is there a method in the madness? Image created by Bing USA has a debt of $ 36 trillion. Annual interest on this is over $ 1 trillion, the largest item of expenditure in...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Jan 8-14, 2023 Yes, if the myopic polity gets off its high horse! The latest of several exciting technological innovations is ChatGPT. A chatbot, launched by OpenAI in November 2022, it performs as a code editor, an idea...
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 16-22, 2023 Thus ending strife and promoting growth? Jingoistic political leaders don’t seem to be willing to end conflicts, those which cause needless deaths, injuries and emigration, but also prevent trade (witness Yemeni firing of rockets at...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Sep 26-Oct 2, 2021 Problems of disrupted supply chains ­­Thomas Friedman had, in 2005, written a book, The World is Flat, explaining how the forces of technology, better communication and digitisation, would lead to benefits for all, thus...
 INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Jul 10-16, 2022 Markets are signalling a US recession Confucius said ‘one should not pick fight with one’s bullet supplier’ (Disclosure: Confucius didn’t say it, I did, but adding his name attracts more attention J). Egged on by a...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj May 8-14, 2022 Biden shoots himself in the foot A concatenation of events have led up to the current crisis in Ukraine. Donald Trump never believed he would lose the 2020 Presidential election to Joe Biden evidenced by the...
MARKET PERSPECTIVES By J Mulraj July 5-11, 2025 Trump must not let ego override sense in his fallout with Musk? Image created by Bing There is no denying that America is in a debt trap. A debt trap is when the debtor needs to...