MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Aug 1 - 8, 2025
Or imitative of Pinocchio?
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Donald Trump is on a rampage, raising import tariffs for all countries, to ludicrous levels, on the specious argument that they had been ripping the US...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
June 7-13, 2025
Over indebtedness and aggressive posturing causes a downward spiral
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It is only in the English Dictionary that pride comes after a fall; in the real world it precedes it. President Trump’s aggressive...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 16-22, 2023
Thus ending strife and promoting growth?
Jingoistic political leaders don’t seem to be willing to end conflicts, those which cause needless deaths, injuries and emigration, but also prevent trade (witness Yemeni firing of rockets at...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 12-18, 2024
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And start addressing urgent structural issues
Anand Ranganathan is an author and scientist. In this video he pontificates on what a Government is supposed to do. He believes, quite rightly, that the job of any...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
JUNE 22-28, 2024
By Joe Biden (Move Over, Dale)
Before 2021 USA had friends and allies like Saudi Arabia, Germany and other EU countries. It had energy security, because of fracking shale oil, which gave it geopolitical clout....
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
Oct 11-17, 2025
251st Blog for AsiaConverge
It’s a hard rain that’s gonna fall!
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The good news of last week was some the release of 20 hostages in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and of several Palestinians captured by Israel,...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 13 - 19, 2025
He twiddles whilst America burns
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President Trump’s aggressive tariff policies seek to extract benefits for America, and drive inward direct investment to create jobs. But his policies are unfairly...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
May 1-7, 2022
Diversion of resources away from health and education
Retired politician and author Ron Paul says, in his weekly column, that “War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 14-20, 2024
Powell cuts interest rates by 50 bips
Unlike Mark Antony’s description of Brutus’ stabbing of his friend Julius Caeser as being ‘the unkindest cut of all’, Fed Chair, Jerome Powell’s interest rate cut by 50...
