China & Japan – The Perils of Proximity
Vishnu-Gupt, the celebrated “Kautilya”, wrote Artha-Shastra, the definitive treatise on Politics, Economics & GeoStrategy around 300 BCE. An Ach...
Category: Book Review
Essential Technology for Society’s Growth – Wisdom of Robert Shiller
The last three centuries have been owned by England and America. No other country or continent in the world has been able to compete first with England and now ...
The Old U.S. Dollar has Collapsed; Long Live the New U.S. Dollar
Editor’s Note: This is our second review of the book Currency Wars by James Rickards, a counselor, investment banker, risk manager, and an advisor to the ...
Avalanches, Nuclear Reactors & Financial Markets – A Complexity Theory View by James Rickards
Remember the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis in early 2007? Economists, Money Managers, Financial Anchors told us that subprime mortgages were only a ...
A Contest for Supremacy – China & America in & for Asia
The World is a fascinating place right now. Europe is undergoing an existential crisis in a fiscal sense. Either it will come together to form a cohesive, fisca...
Greatest Acquisition of the 20th Century & Its Impact on the 21st Century
Rarely does one read a book of great importance, a book that opens our eyes to a problem of global significance and that too in an arena we all think we know. T...
The War on Math (& the Future) – Chapter 9 of Mr. Friedman’s Book
The book That Used To Be Us has two authors, Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandlebaum. We used Mr. Friedman’s name in our title for brevity and also because...
Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, EIC & India
Adam Smith (1723-1790) is widely regarded as the father of modern economics and capitalism. His work, Wealth of Nations, is his magnum opus and one of the most ...
The Plunder of Bengal – A Lesson for “Independent” India
Editor’s Note: Tomorrow is India’s Independence Day. We like so many will celebrate it with joy. But, it is important to look back and see how India...
Hitler & Churchill – Birds of a Similar Feather?
Editor’s Note: The quotes and the data used below come from an extraordinary book titled “Churchill’s Secret War“, a meticulously resear...