Risk Management – A Brothel in Nevada, Race Horses in Kentucky & Iraq War
As experts are warnings us, the year 2024 is likely to be a choppy year with a lot of volatility, a fancy word for risk. What else is new? Isn’t wa...
Category: Book Review
C-In-C FDR & His Battles with Churchill – 1943
Almost all would agree that today’s big conflict is between USA & China. As we see it, China might be the biggest & more multi-dimensional ...
A Tribute to the Un-Understood FDR on Memorial Day
As most know, Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died while serving in the ...
Trump & S&P 500 – From Tale Risk to Narrative Economics of Robert Shiller
What a week! It began with the just execution of ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi by US special forces and ended with the US stock market reaching new all-time hi...
China, Apple, Trump and 4 Traps of Magnus
This week the world’s biggest market cap company, the world’s biggest corporate icon, the company that has done more to bring the world toget...
Dynasties of the Sea
We had never given much thought to shipping, the business of large ships plying the world’s oceans carrying massive amounts of cargo. If you own a shippin...
From Asia to Europe – Today’s World & the World of Marco Polo
Look at this week & the next – President Trump made a brief stop at the G-7 meeting, so brief & so uncomfortable to European “leaders...
From Chanakya To Modi – A Discussion of “Indian Exceptionalism” by Aparna Pande
As we wrote last week, “we have developed a healthy contempt towards the “work” American Think Tanks do about India“. Why? Because their R...
68th Independence Day & 30th Anniversary of a Himaalayan Victory
Yesterday, 15th August 2014 was the 68th Independence Day of Bharatiya Gan-Rajya or the Republic of India. The subcontinent, the country & its cultur...
Secretary Kerry’s Visit to India in a Histrio-Political Context
This week, Secretary of State John Kerry visited India to attend the Fifth India-US Strategic Dialogue. The impetus behind the visit was clearly stated i...