MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 18-24, 2025
Petty bureaucratic tinkering
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The ongoing Mahakumbh mela at Prayagraj, a month long religious gathering, is expected to be attended by 400 million people. That is a more than the population of the...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Aug 22-28, 2021
Out of the Afghan hole, into Jackson hole
Stockmarkets are affected by a potpourri of factors, and one or more of them can become the focus of large investors, driving markets up or down. The...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
MAY 24- JUNE 1, 2025
Is there a method in the madness?
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USA has a debt of $ 36 trillion. Annual interest on this is over $ 1 trillion, the largest item of expenditure in...
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...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
March 8-15, 2024
Shaping the narrative using doublespeak
The priorities of political leaders are malleable, and can change, depending on current exigencies. One of the top priorities for the Biden administration was climate change. Towards this end, one...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jan 20-26, 2024
Technology and strategic thinking can create a bright future
With several ongoing wars and conflicts, (Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Hamas, Commercial Shipping-Houthis, Iran-Pakistan) and other potential ones (China-Taiwan, Venezuela-Guyana), the picture looks bleak. Not only do wars beggar...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
Are Central Banks going easy on inflation targetting?
By J Mulraj -- Dec 6-12, 2020
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The cover story of the Economist asks if inflation will return. Starting with the global financial crisis in 2008, right...
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...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
JULY 12-18, 2025
239th Blog for AsiaConverge
Political myopia is the only impediment to a bright futureword Grok is a verb, first used by sci-fi author Richard Heinlein to mean an intuitive understanding. It is capable od deductive...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE by Jawahir Mulraj
Is the Production Linked Incentive Scheme enough?
By J Mulraj -- Nov 8-14, 2020
The Government gave a push to the manufacturing sector by announcing a Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme, giving a monetary incentive in ten...
