Wednesday, July 22, 2026
The growing irrelevance of India on the global stage RN Bhaskar Image generated by https://deepai.org On 6 April, full four days after US President Trump announced sweeping tariffs for all countries exporting goods to the US, Piyush Goyal and his team were...
Why did India choose the UK for the FTA deal? RN Bhaskar Image generated by https://www.bing.com On the same day when India launched a surgical strike against “terrorist camps” in Pakistan, came the announcement that this country had finally signed an FTA...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-government-should-not-be-trusted-with-banks/1198570 The government is responsible for bank NPAs — By RN Bhaskar | Jan 04, 2018 08:34 am A seminal document, that CARE Ratings brought out on December 27, 2017, showed how precariously perched India’s banks are. In that list (see chart alongside) CARE Ratings...
Splurge even if you are going bankrupt RN Bhaskar Most economists agree that governments can either control interest rates, or exchange rates.  They cannot do both.  If the government controls interest rates to tamp down inflation, then the repercussions will be...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/arbitration-need-to-protect-investments Protect investments and arbitration; else the economic pain will worsen RN Bhaskar  -- 23 January 2020 The recent reckless remarks against Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’s investment announcements have upset the global financial community.  The government’s subsequent claim that the remarks were taken...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-corporate-performance-3-value-added-is-extremely-important-for-developing-countries   Corporate groups-3 VA and exports are excellent indicators of financial performance By RN Bhaskar (the first two parts of this series can be found at https://asiaconverge.com/2021/11/money-makes-the-world-go-round/  and https://asiaconverge.com/2021/12/corporate-groups-2-are-they-profitable/ In this last part of our series on analysing the performance of  corporate groups, we look...
Oil is slippery, and Trump could get bogged down RN Bhaskar Image through CoPilot Trump has been in office for over ten days now. He has announced the largest number of executive orders on the very first day of Presidency than any...
R N Bhaskar 6 July 2015 For almost four decades since India’s independence, Germany saw immense opportunity in this country.  True, there were hurdles.  Managing the government wasn’t easy.  Especially when many of the big businesses that Germany was interested in...
April 13, 2026 Indians begin return journey from the Middle East – remittances hit By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image: CoPilot All the grandiose plans that India has been chest-thumping about for the past decade are almost in fragments.  The ideological...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-absurd-posturing-of-the-anti-gm-lobby/1144327 The edible oil story in India — By RN Bhaskar | Sep 28, 2017 07:49 am The battle-lines between the proponents of pro-GM (genetically modified) mustard seed, and anti-GM lobbies are getting drawn more sharply.  Both have their arguments.  But it looks like...