Monday, August 17, 2026
MARKET PERSPECTIVE  -- By Jawahir Mulraj Bouquets and brickbats By J Mulraj --  Nov 21-28, 2020 The Government needs to be complimented for several achievements. Last week, for example, 3GPP, a global standards body, approved the Indian navigation system,   NaVIC, developed by...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj May 29- Jun 6, 2025 Utterly Irresponsible Western Leadership Risks Armageddon Image created by Bing 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 Nov 11-17, 2023 USA is in a fiscal morass The US is reeling under an unserviceable mountain of debt. It has ignored several warning signals, most recently when it’s banking and financial system nearly collapsed during the 2008...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Oct 1-9, 2021 Old King Cole is important, again Policy makers all over the world, make economic decisions in which ego, rather than commonsensical logic, plays a big role. It’s time these decisions  be revisited. Here are a...

MARKET PERSPECTIVE by J Mulraj   Stockmarkets not deterred by storming of Capitol Hill By J Mulraj - Jan 3 -9, 2021 It was reminiscent of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: The distressing events of  Jan 6, when supporters of Donald Trump invaded...
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’...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Jun 18-25, 2022 The consequences of policy decisions take a long time to manifest As the Benjamin Franklin poem above indicates, the consequences of an act take a long time, and a series of mis-steps, to manifest themselves....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Aug 1- 7, 2026 The Situational Awareness of Over Leverage Image generated by ChatGPT By all accounts, German born whiz kid Nicholas Aschenbrenner was a brilliant student. He graduated, at age 19, as a valedictorian, from Columbia University, worked...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Jan 15-22, 2023 Yak-yak is better than ack-ack! The illustration above (created using a software called DALL -E) indicates the perils of ignoring inter-dependency; if they let go, both would fall in the abyss. The world is so inter-twined...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj June 17-23, 2023 What will it look like? Strange are the geopolitical quirks of history! For years, USA, the world’s oldest democracy, had backed and favored Pakistan, a military dictatorship. At the same time, and partly because of...