Crystal Ball Gazing: Stock markets in 2022
The best thing about quantitative easing is that it works in practice but not so in theory. Ben Bernanke, the then US Federal Reserve chairman, said that in 2014, the…
Investing lessons from the pandemic
Narratives are significant vectors of rapid culture change, zeitgeist, and economic behaviour. Nobel laureate and renowned economist Robert J. Shiller wrote that in his book on Narrative Economics in 2019. There…
How to Overcome behavioural biases in Investing
Not many people invest in India's stock market. Merely 3% of India's population directly get involved. In America, that is 55%. Retail mutual fund investors have assets equivalent to 16%…
Staying active in increasingly passive investment world
Investing needs your support. Your future wealth and well-being depend on the way you shepherd your savings today. You may be busy with your work life. You may not have…
How to walk the commodity ‘supercycle’ talk
There emanates from superlatives a destructive force. Elias Canetti, a Nobel laureate for literature, probably said that in the context of the second world war. In financial markets, a lot…
Stagflation – A clear and present danger
The dreaded inflation demon continues to raise the head. The consumer price inflation in America is perhaps the most-watched number in the financial markets around the world. It sets the…
MARKETS AT DIZZYING HEIGHTS – WHAT CAN GO WRONG?
The 2008 global financial crisis or GFC was called a Black Swan event. It hit the global financial system like never before. A marquee bank like Lehman Brothers does not…
China’s cup of Woes continues to overflow
Terms like ‘Tsunamis’, ‘pandemics’ and ‘contagions’ have become a regular feature in Asia over the past few decades. According to estimates thrown around, the Chinese real estate developer ‘Evergrande’ owes…
Will China’s Real Estate bubble ever POP? The Evergrande saga!
The main protagonist of this story is Evergrande, a systematically important real estate developer of China. Many of us would not have heard of this company in our part of…
SPAC – the next big investment opportunity!
First thing first, let’s get the definition out of the way. The SPACs are shell companies, in other words, a “Blank Cheque” company, created for a specific purpose of acquiring…
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