Bharat Rakshak

This thread is now two years old if you count the initial set of posts in the global economy thread. Since it is about perspectives perhaps we should now list out some of the key perspectives as to the origin of the crisis; the policy response by the national governments; analysts' assessments of ho...

nandkumar garu, Interesting comments. Contribution appreciated. Kindly break your commentary into multiple paras for better structuring and easier readability, though. Here's a tip - even random para breaks are fine. Looking fwd to more from you. Dear Hari Seldon Thanks for the comment. Yes, will b...

well surely a opening packing lots of sub prime marriages into tradeable instruments and selling the risk to investors! for that matter why not securities based on risk of power cuts in california or floods in mumbai or terrorist attacks in peshawar? where does investing end and gambling begin? or ...

McKinsey survey http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Economic_Conditions_Snapshot_September_2010_McKinsey_Global_Survey_results_2672 Access to the full content require prior registration. Key findings are these: 1. The survey claims that 51 per cent of thee xecutives that they had polled claimed that th...

vina wrote: Quote <quoted text> Unquote <Uncapped, unpunctuated, unintelligible text> Dear Nandakumar. There is a facility called "quote" on the forum software. Click the button labeled "Quote" on the post you want to quote, and you will see an edit screen with the text neatly q...

Sanjay wrote So it is China which retains the initiative, not the USA. It is China which can continue to alter the situation in its favour, to reduce its exposure to an increasingly deteriorating USA. China is building roads, highways, bridges, factories, etc in places like Africa, and those people ...

vina wrote: Quote 2) If you use 2.5t dollars to buy raw materials at massively inflated prices, you have to inventory it for a pretty long time. What you do is you expose yourself to massive price risk of the commodity. Unquote Exactly. there is also the issue of none of these commodities either sin...

JE menon wrote quote Prostitution is a complex subject, and OT here. So I will not get into it. It is not easy to describe the phenomenon, and the attendant industry, through the a singular perspective. unquote let me confine my take on this to the purely economic aspect. it seems every economic act...

enquoob wrote quote: How does that work pls? If I had borrowed $100 in 1990 dollars, and now I have to pay back $60 in 2011 dollars which are really worth only $20 in 1990 dollars, haven't I made out like a bandit? So isn't it the person who has paid off all his debts, that is the sucker, compared t...

Shiv wrote: This is as good an explanation as any other. I don't think anyone has actually figured out the exact reason or proven that only families that lose children have more children. It is likely (as is the case with this sort of phenomenon) that the reasons are multifactorial. If you look at i...

vina wrote quote: Much of China's coal has around 17% upwards of ash content. So of the roughly 1.5B or 3B or whatever tons the Chinese moved by railways, close to 250M tons or 500M tons moved was uburnable ash that gets collected in ash ponds and lower the efficiency of the system,and the moisture ...

quote About AIG, vinaji, there is a good reason why the Feds acted. AIG's business is writing life insurance policies, and its clients are worldwide. Letting AIG die would have caused a lot of sudden deaths all around the world and many in the US. I don't know if life insurance issued by such compan...