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
NOV 8-14, 2025
Too Big To Fail firms pose a huge risk
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The term ‘too big to fail’ (TBTF) was coined by Congressman Stewart McKinney at the Congressional Hearing after the collapse of Continental Illinois...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 28 – Mar 6, 2021
Not argumentative, be an augmentative Indian!
Democracy is wonderful, if the polity is sensible and not, alas as it is, needlessly argumentative. Our polity kept India’s economy chained until a crisis in...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Aug 7-13, 2022
Geopolitics or Financial insanity, what will bring about another crash?
A black swan event is an unpredictable event which results in dire consequences (like the start of WW1 with the assassination of an Archduke or...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 18-24, 2023
The World is Dangerously Poised
The US has hit the national debt ceiling imposed by its Congress, and needs its permission to raise it. A failure to raise the debt ceiling will result in a...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Apr 10-16, 2022
We need fossil fuels now, the environment can wait, says Europe
The Ukraine war has revealed a lot of chinks. India’s foreign minister, Jaishankar, rightly pointed out to a journalist asking why India was buying...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 4-10, 2025
Will Atlas shrug?
‘Atlas Shrugged’ is a fictional tome, authored by Ayn Rand, describing a country being led to destruction because of woke policies, ones that discourage enterprise and reward sloth. In Greek mythology, Atlas...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
June 14-20, 2025
Winner takes the global debris!
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World leaders, guided by the military-industrial-complex (MIC), appear to be addicted to forever wars. All countries are increasing the share of defense in GDP, diverting resources that...
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
Jan 17 -23, 2021
A Promising Yet Complicated Future
Bob Dylan captured it in his song ‘The Times They are a Changing’. He sang:
Come Senators, Congress, heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall,
For...
