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
AUG 31-SEP 6, 2024
Good governance needed to chart the future course
In his classic, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, Charles Dickens describes the divergent paths of Paris (in the period 1775-1792, before the French Revolution), and of...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2022
Biden’s alliances are breaking
One of the advantages that Joe Biden professed having over Trump, in the run up to the last elections, was his ability to create, and maintain, global alliances....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 30- Feb 5, 2022
An even greater focus on developing, and deploying, new technologies is needed
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the budget for 2022 which focuses on growth, to create jobs, spurred by a rise...
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
Dec 26, 2021 – Jan 1, 2022
India can never be a super power unless it tackles corruption. Alas, it has no will to
In the ‘50s, India and Singapore had similar per-capita incomes. Today Singapore’s per capita...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jul 18- 24, 2026
The Stick More Than the Carrot
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Diplomatic negotiations do not work in the US-Iran conflict. Simply because Iran has two layers of power structures; an elected Government, the more amenable of...
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...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 11- 18, 2023
Are Capital Markets, Trade and Investment Flows, Oil Markets Truly Free?
Do we really have free markets? Janis Joplin summed it up rather well in the song ‘Me and Bobby McGee’, saying ‘freedom is...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jun 26- Jul 3, 2021
Yes, but after a lot of hard work
Is India on track to become a $ 5 trillion economy, and how good intact is the India story?
India hit a $ 3 trillion...
