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
Dec 7-13, 2024
It can solve societal problems or can create more
Speaking at an NDTV World Summit, Sunil Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, told the audience about how he was nearly defrauded by a scammer who used...
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...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
April 27- May 3, 2024
India’s economic performance is standing out
Avid British climber, George Mallory, when asked why he was trying, for the third time, to climb Mr. Everest, said ‘because it’s there’.
In much the same vein,...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
AUG 3-9, 2024
And spooks global markets
Japan’s Government debt is, as per IMF the highest in the world, at 214%. So, for decades, it had a zero interest rate policy; most of its debt was domestically raised....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
July 22-28, 2023
If Modi is serious about making India a developed economy, he has to tackle this!
The number of retail investors in NSE, India’s largest stock exchange, went up from 3 million, in Jan 2020, to...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 14-20, 2024
Improved productivity is the only option left to reduce debt
The G7 countries, (USA, Japan, Germany, France, U.K., Canada and Italy) is a classification of the large Western countries by their GDP. All are democracies....
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...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
May 30- Jun 5, 2021
India must get its act together to prepare for the future
A 1966 film ‘The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming’ then expressed fears of a Russian invasion.
Today the film may...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 19-25, 2021
The imperatives for USA and China to work together
China is an enigma. It has had remarkable economic achievements (lifted millions of its citizens out of poverty). It now has 5 times India’s per capita...