https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/economic-policy-little-vision-less-consultation
Auto sector revival key to economic revival
RN Bhaskar – August 22, 2019
Budget reviews are normally written within a fortnight after the papers are tabled in Parliament. This belated review comes in the wake of sharply declining sales, slashing of...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/expect-2018-to-be-more-unsettling-than-2017/1178960
An unsettling 2018
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 30, 2017 07:52 am
Most marketmen are a bit confused about what the markets and the leading economies have in store for 2018. The first of such reports is already out. Credit Suisse...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-regulatory-games-2-how-sebi-muddies-the-waters
Regulatory games2
SEBI muddies the waters
It’s no go the merry-go-round, it’s no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Bagpipe music (1938) by Louis MacNeice
RN Bhaskar
A look at recent developments at The Securities Exchange...
Iran invokes spirits of the great Persian empire
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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Iran has become the proverbial ugly-duckling-turned-swan. Its ugly duckling image was a creation of Western media right since the 1950s. This was because...
You cannot become a superpower with a weak currency
By RN Bhaskar
India analysts have watched with amazement as they see the rupee continue to slip. It has lately been hovering around Rs.82 for each US Dollar, and is threatening to...
India has big plans and announcements about its INR, but without underlying support
RN Bhaskar
For the past couple of months there have been reports and conjectures that the Indian rupee (INR) could easily become the global reserve currency. The answer...
RBI has more caprice than respect for standards
Can anyone be the world’s best central bank governor if he cannot protect the sanctity of his own country’s currency?
By RN BhaskarLast week, the Bombay High Court granted time to the Reserve...
20 April 2026
The economy the government is blind to
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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India has been haemorrhaging for the past decade. The Iran war only jolted India by focussing the spotlights on the fissures that government policies...
23 Feb 2026
Iran can teach India how not to do business through blackmail
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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In early February 2026, the Indian coast guard intercepted three oil tankers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVYPRstOjGk). They were carrying oil. It was initially...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/bank-frauds-could-hurt-india-much-more-than-covid-19-can
Bank frauds could create more pain than people imagine
RN Bhaskar – 24 September 2020
If you are a believer, or a bhakt, you should only read the reports of India’s policymakers. You will get a feeling that all is well. ...
