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Define - "Pickle", may I request? Exactly what sort of "pickle" are we in? And the Bat Eaters, I presume are starting their picnic into Ladakh?? Its also a bit surprising that one feels the speech is just simply rhetoric... Mil acquisitions is one part of the picture, really. In...

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1. Multiple tests have already been conducted on Agni V - the only gray area is the range, whether it is 5,000 kms or more, no one is talking about less. 2. It is unlikely that the Chinese will target large Indian metros with conventional bombs and even if they do, the escalation path from there is...

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Nuclear weapons are weapons of deterrence. Not deterrence to avoid conventional conflict, but deterrence to avoid a nuclear first strike by your adversary. The deployed Agni 2 and 3 are ONLY/SOLELY nuclear tipped - there are no conventional warheads on them. Agni 5 has not yet been operationally de...

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India today does not have the kind of long range precision strike weapons needed to target China where it hurts. Because until this present crisis was thrust on it 75% of India's defence efforts focused on Pakistan. So yes as of today that kind of a war is a non starter with China. But imagine this...

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For the 1000th time, the deal on the planes was closed last year and RS's visit was agreed to before this drama. As much as you want to paint our leadership in a negative light your assertions are made up. Nothing to do with RS's visit, did we request for early delivery of planes after the clash? I...

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<Snip> OK, Rahul did not have the sense. India has lost Finger 5-8. China has painted/whatever a map of China and something in Mandarin at Finger 5. India never "had" Finger 5-8 to lose it, sending a patrol party every week/day does not mean you had it. Now China definitely has it and the...

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What China Thinks Of Galwan Valley Clash?; Chinese Military Scholar Yun Sun Exclusive | Newstrack Very interesting views, it is worth listening (their views on the border, GDP, and this in not 1962) I hope Rahul Kanwal had the sense to ask 2 questions to points repeatedly raised by Yun Sun. 1. If C...

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Why a Trade War With China Is a Bad Idea for India De-addiction is indeed very difficult but it is necessary. If one good thing comes out of this crisis, I hope it is this. Couple of comments on the article - "its military is inefficient, underequipped, and dogged by procurement corruption sca...

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This is the best government we have at this time to handle the situation. The alternatives are disaster. ... There is no doubt about this. Leave it to INC or NCP or SP (forget the Communists), they will hold an international auction of Indian interests, they have already done the damage. GoI needs ...

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We need to be realistic and bold, without being foolhardy. Thinking of Lhasa :) is a day dream, unless we are prepared to risk an all out war. It would be an existential issue for the CCP. The Chinese want to project their power in a post-COVID world but they will not risk an all out war either. The...

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TMK (with its unmatched ISR and technical capabilities) and Israel (the only country in the world with actual successful experience in this kind of mission) would go about the job of actual location and destruction of the "jewels". Actually, rather than the jewels themselves, what should ...

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We cannot allow China to take 2 steps forward and 1 step back.

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skumar, From what little I know of jet engine design Kaveri won't deliver anymore without a new core. DRDO chief said we are developing a larger engine. Ramana sir, would not be better to entrust this to a private enterprise that has experience in building large industrial equipment like turbines? ...

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Noob question / comment. The GE414 is going to be a strategic pain point for India. Can India hand over the development of the Kaveri Engine to an enterprise like L&T? Would be worth spending X,000 crores to get an indigenous fully owned engine. India must approach this like the US approached th...

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One of the true patriots / chowkidars of modern India.

His impact and his absence will be felt for a long time.

ऊँ शंति

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_M0S8KVHHY[/youtube]

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India Lets U.S. Down on Iran ---- R Nicholas Burns Dear Mr. Burns, US has let India down innumerable times in the past on many issues including terrorism emanating from its Major Non Nato Ally, Pakistan. More over India does not owe anything to US on this issue. Being a 'close strategic partner' do...

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If Italy is really in such deep trouble, who knows perhaps a certain family there with filial connections to the real powercenter in India's biggest parliamentary party might wanna move their India-derived monies out of there in a hurry, eh? No wonder GoI reports total ignorance about the destinati...

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Before cutting SS / HC, how about cutting tax exemptions?
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-ar ... 11-11?op=1

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More from zerohedge.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/jim-gr ... d-standard

Slightly more difficult to call him a commie. Oh well, but nobody has.

skumar

Maybe you didn't notice that the article is about RIEF and not about Medallion. I did not say that, did I? In fact, my next statement, which you have not included, suggests that there is no public information about Medallion. My point on the RenTech funds was that RIEF (the "public" fund)...

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Never fail to be amused by the mindset displayed by Neshant, you and other assorted commies !! If a firm is successful in financial services, it has to be crooked ! That's impressive logic. Comment was with reference to the link posted earlier by VikramS. Perhaps you fail to recognize logic or perh...

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But seriously, how many HNI PMS / hedge funds have generated 35% returns consistently over 3 years or more? Check out Renaissance Technology's Medallion Fund & its average returns for over 2 decades since 1989. So, the answer is one? That too a crooked fund which might be stealing money from it...

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Savers choose to outsource management of their savings primarily because they have (a) either no time to spend on such management or (b) even if they had the time they might not have the ability to generate beyond 15% pa on a consistent basis; and most often the reason is a combination of both (a) ...

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Arjun: It is only on WS that people can claim that I delivered so give me the bonus. If they are so good, they should trade their own capital . Currently WS raises capital from the public markets, siphons the profits, and then runs to the tax-payer when they screw up. And another real world example...

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RoyG wrote:mFdnA5UNmVw

I guess some people on this thread should have been on the side of the Nobel prize winning economists answering questions about the US economy.

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Singha wrote:will rajat gupta get any time?

there is even a co specialized in helping people have a easier time in jail
http://www.executiveprisonconsultants.com/id5.html

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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-seven-biggest-economic-lies-the-presidents-jobs-bill-2011-10 One simple measure for the US is to raise taxes for the rich. From above, "From the end of World War II until 1981, the richest Americans faced a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent or above. Under ...

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Local debt pileup in China
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... ms?curpg=1

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<snip>as per that stats only 300k Indians have disposable wealth > 100k.. nonsense.. even in 2nd tier cities like surat or vadodara or pune there must be 10s of thousand people with bank balance more than 45 lakh INR<snip> Linked report says 3 million, i.e. 3000k, not 300k. What is nonsensical is c...

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Talking Points for the "Occupy Wall Street" Protesters - John P. Hussman
http://www.hussman.net/wmc/wmc111010.htm

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If so much was debt fueled when the crash came and debt was cut of the GDP should have cratered, similar to Great Depression. It did not. Even today over 90% of mortgages are being paid and people are staying solvent if a bit distressed. Yes there will be a lot of catch up by China/India, etc, but ...

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This is not my fight but It is useful to remember that that the US economy in absolute numbers is actually higher now than 2007! Inflation has remained low and can be neglected. Companies are making cash hand over fist. The real problem is jobs as companies are squeezing more and more work out of t...

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Neshant wrote:the cynical side of me says these shills are angling for a too-big-to-fail bailout.

They are lining up. How many times will we hear this bs - recapitalize banks, political will, tightly interlinked world financial systems, apocalypse now.

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<snip>All that says is how worthless paper money is relative to gold at the moment. For that matter there are trillionaires running around in Zimbabwe after the country hyper inflated its currency. Clue in, you can't be that ignorant. Anything can be measured against GDP. If you measure toilet pape...

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I predict a return to honest money (gold & silver) within 5 years and the end of worthless paper money. I also predict... <snip> Just to show why I don't regard your views worthy of consideration: The value of the world's gold inventories is currently $2.7 trillion, silver inventories is $23.68...

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Maybe. Hopefully not. When one has a serious disease, an attempt at treatment/surgery (even if the cure probability is less than 100%) is better than throwing up one's hands and saying "its uncurable". I'm very confident that a financial system will survive. Though what shape it will take...

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<snip> However, the solution is to fix these specific faults by specific actions.<snip> The discussion can be about what those solutions could be. As Theo said, one is the split of retail and investment banking. Others could include, weaning consumers off the debt-fuelled culture, additional regula...

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<snip> if banks are "useless middlemen and parasites" as you say, can you explain why they have been around for the past several centuries? What would you use to replace this system? Perhaps barter, or a selfless moneyless society (shades of Marx)? You're even confusing the issue of curre...

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main reason the European countries wanted to install their stooge Laggarde as chief at the IMF is to have some of that Greek default be borne by other countries. An offloading of losses onto suckers down the line. its criminal that the IMF chief 'loans' money to Greece with zero collateral knowing ...

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