MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 24- Mar 1, 2024
How states destroy themselves
Last week a judge in New York fined Donald Trump $454 m. (Including penalty and interest) for over valuing his property in order to get favorable terms for a...
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
March 22-28, 2025
The achievements and the challenges before us
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The big advantages in the India story were it’s favorable demographics (average age is 28.8 years in India, 37.5 in China, 38.7 in USA, 44.7...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 9-15, 2022
It’s far more than Sixteen Tons!
In 1955, Tennessee Ernie Ford wrote a song, ‘Sixteen Tons’, about the plight of nineteenth century American coal miners, underpaid, overworked, and forever in debt to the company store....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
May 29- Jun 6, 2025
Utterly Irresponsible Western Leadership Risks Armageddon
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The collective West, by ignoring Putin’s oft-repeated warning about a NATO membership grant to Ukraine (contravening a promise given to former Russian President Gorbachev...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 21-27, 2021
A Tale of Two Scenarios
Bitcoin reminds one of Charles’ Dickens ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ which was ‘the best of times, the worst of times; the spring of hope, the winter of despair; we...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
May 26- June 2, 2023
Unless individual investors are protected, the India story will dilute
India ranks 63/190 countries in World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking, overall. The ranking is based on various criteria. India scores best...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 20-26, 2022
The war in Ukraine nobody wanted, but got anyways
One needs to look at the map of Russia and its neighbours to understand what led to the Ukrainian crisis, now a war that ought to...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
Are Central Banks going easy on inflation targetting?
By J Mulraj -- Dec 6-12, 2020
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The cover story of the Economist asks if inflation will return. Starting with the global financial crisis in 2008, right...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 27- Mar 5, 2022
Will climate change be the victim of geopolitics?
As per this video by Peter Zeihan, an American geopolitical analyst and author, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was based on a sense of insecurity, and...
