Are interest rates headed up?

May 8, 2012

I got an email from someone who asked if NRE interest rates are likely to go up in the future and that really surprised me. For more than a year now people have been leaving comments here saying that interest rates have peaked and they can’t go any higher, and you should make hay while [...]

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India’s Declining Forex Reserves

May 7, 2012

The Rupee has fallen down quite a bit in the last few days and this naturally brings to attention the topic of what the RBI can do to stop this slide. The last time such a slide happened the RBI did a few things, the most noticeable of which was making NRE deposits tax free [...]

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Good ULIPs, Facebook’s IPO and Risk

May 5, 2012

I was unable to write a post this week due to some unplanned work that came up and took up all my time. This is likely to go on for this month, but I think I will be able to write during the month, though probably not the 6 posts in the week. That said, [...]

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Nature of truth, Game Theory in Penalty Kicks and Mining Asteroids

April 28, 2012

First up, this fascinating profile of Marc Andreessen who developed the first graphical browser, co-founded Netscape and is currently a venture capitalist invested in some of the most important technology companies in the world. Next, an intriguing excerpt from a conversation between Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore where they discuss about the nature of Truth [...]

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