INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2022
Biden’s alliances are breaking
One of the advantages that Joe Biden professed having over Trump, in the run up to the last elections, was his ability to create, and maintain, global alliances....
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 23-29, 2022
Is there a sane voice left in the global polity?
The main geopolitical events last week was the unprecedented grant of a third Presidential term to Xi Jinping of China, followed, the next day, by...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 16-22, 2022
It’s not just a numbers game
At the 76th Independence Day celebration, PM Narendra Modi, speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort, announced his ambition to make India into a developed country, by 2047,...
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....
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 24-30, 2022
India’s economy can sprint like a cheetah, but a lot of work still needs to be done
India has become the 5th largest economy in the world and is predicted to become, by 2030, the...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 17-23, 2022
The world is entering a dangerous phase
My last column mentioned three geopolitical events investors needed to look out for. The first has occurred, which was the September US Fed policy meeting to determine the...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 10 - 16 2022
Will Europe stay united?
In his epic novel, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens wrote “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Sep 4- 10, 2022
Stopping a senseless war requires some sense
The war in Ukraine was started senselessly, and the destruction, suffering and loss of lives was totally avoidable. For years Russia had been pleading with NATO, which...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Aug 28-Sep 3, 2022
The multiple risks investors shouldn’t ignore
If globalization means ease of international trade, it started with Columbus’s discovery of America. It got impetus after WWII, when the US, with the only large navy still...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Aug 21-27, 2022
Fiddling while the world burns
Looking to the climate changes happening all over the world, it is hard to believe that these world leaders took pledges to address them, just ten months ago, at the...