INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVES
By J Mulraj
Mar 4-10, 2023
The perils of shareholder capitalism
The GINI coefficient is a way to determine how equal a society is, in terms of income distribution. The higher a country’s rating on the GINI index, the more unequally...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 2- 8, 2023
Unless tackled, India won’t become a developed economy
According to Bernstein, a reputed sell side research and brokerage firm, India is 16.5 years behind China. India is 21 years behind China in patents (in...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 23-29, 2023
Politically motivated conflict and destruction, or technologically enabled nirvana?
The world is at a fork in the road. One road, adopted by jingoistic politicians, leads to war, death and destruction, of the sort depicted in...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 24- 30, 2021
Electoral funding and impact on policy
In an interesting article, titled The Great Grift, Scott Galloway, an NYU Stern School Professor, points out that around 400 families provide half the funding for presidential elections,...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
NOV 5-11, 2023
How will emerging technologies help?
The price of money, namely, the interest rate is, arguably, the most important factor in any financial decision. It determines the viability of an investment decision, or the wisdom of...
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 10-16, 2023
… can lead to disaster
A question for readers - is the image above showing a pretty, young woman, or an old hag? Reader response to this optical illusion would be pretty much divided, equally....
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Nov 14-20, 2021
Is a short term correction due?
India’s long term growth story is good, especially if the Government continues to continue economic reforms, but its short term view is being looked at with caution, by some...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Nov 16-22, 2024
The Insanity of Politicians Can Lead To It
There is, it seems, no height for insanity. Joe Biden’s decision, last week, to allow Ukraine to use its long range missile, ATACMS, to strike nside Russia...
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...
