MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
April 11-17, 2021
We need both good governance and good discipline by citizens
Democracy comes with a price, but, for the sake of preserving individual liberties, it is a price worth paying.
When the Berlin wall came crashing down,...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 25- 31, 2025
Debt, debasement of wars, and distrust, will ensure collapse
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Several empires have collapsed in the past. The Roman Empire, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, the British Empire; all had their days of...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Apr 17-23, 2022
Technology can bring down costs, but over the longer term
By: J Mulraj
First the bad news.
Besides the senseless deaths, injuries and disruptions of lives of 4 million Ukrainians, the economic fallout of the Russian war...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 25, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023
The role of financial and technological innovations in their rise and demise
In November 2022 crypto exchange FTX, once valued at $ 32 b., collapsed, along with its sister concern, Alameda...
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...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By: J Mulraj
Dec 4 -10, 2021
The US-Russia geopolitical chess game over Ukraine
Even before it became the sole superpower following the collapse of Russia, America had a habit of interfering in the business of other countries. After WW 2...
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
April 12-18, 2025
Structural issues need to be urgently addressed
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India’s achievements have been stellar. Last week, for example, Government owned Defense Research and DevelopmeNt Organization, DRDO, announced it has developed a 300 KW laser...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 16- 22, 2023
The UAW strike will, if not resolved, impact the US economy
For the first time ever, the UAW, known as the United Auto Workers, but actually the International Union, the United Auto, Aerospace, Agricultural...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Mar 14-20, 2021
Is India ready for a fast changing world?
In 1949 George Orwell wrote a fantastically prescient book called 1984. It is about a world which, as per Wikipedia, ‘has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent...
