Saturday, September 19, 2026

MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Aug 12-18, 2023 Nations on a path to self-destruct In the movie Rocky 4, Sylvester Stallone and his opponent, Drago, throw a simultaneous double punch, near the end of the fight, and succeed in knocking each other out....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Jan 23-29, 2022 Why does it take policy makers so long to reach sensible conclusions? Abba Eban, an Israeli politician, said ‘Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources’. So true. In a bid to...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Nov 27- Dec 3, 2022 De-globalisation and de-dollarisation are worrying trends A dip into history is necessary to understand the context. America had, post the two world wars, taken over the mantle of global leadership from a war ravaged...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Mar 21- 27, 2026 None of them are workable Image created by Raphael AI It is enigmatic how fact and fiction are intertwined. At the 2026 Oscars, the pinnacle of screen fiction, the winners like ‘One Battle After Another’...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj May 13-19, 2023 Are global leaders too myopic to see the future? It seems as if world leaders, egged on by the deep state, prefer death and destruction to creative disruption. The first half of the image above,...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj JULY 26- Aug 1, 2025 Challenges that India faces Image created by Bing India faces a lot of challenges, and these will only grow. Some of these are: Challenges of Regulation: Recently, a large New York based trading firm, Jane...

MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj 2020 was NOT perfect vision By J Mulraj -- Dec 20-26, 2020 The world would be happy to say goodbye (adieu) to a horrible year, rather than  au revoir (till we meet again). The Covid pandemic, the first case...

INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Feb 4-10, 2023   Lessons to be learnt from the brouhaha Since the publication of a report by US short seller, Hindenberg, there’s been a brouhaha (no laughing matter) over Adani company share prices These stocks have collapsed, causing...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Jul 25-31, 2021 It is the best of times, it is the worst of time…. ­­Charles’ Dickens summation, in a Tale of Two Cities, describes the state of the world beautifully:  ‘it was the best of times, it was...
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...