The New Egypt & a New Sunni Awakening
Remember Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011? That was such a heady time for Egypt and for the true believers. Tom Friedman was ecstatic, Anderson Coope...
Category: Current Affairs
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 10 – September 14, 2012)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our p...
2012 & 2004; Barack Obama & George W. Bush; Base Democrats & Base Republicans
Just like last week, these are my personal reflections about the 2012 Democratic convention. My education is Mathematics, my training is Global Macro and my pas...
The Svastik & Anti-Svastik; The Cross & Anti-Cross – Ignorance or Laissez-faire Racism?
What do you think when you hear or read the word Swastik? You immediately think about Nazi Germany. Why? Because you have been told that the Swastik is a Nazi S...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 4 – September 7)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our p...
2012 & 1992; Paul Ryan & Al Gore; New Republicans & New Democrats
These are personal reflections, actually my visceral reactions to the political drama unfolding in this election. To me this election seems so 1992. I felt this...
Paul Beckett as WSJ India Chief – Is WSJ Management Tonedeaf, Arrogant or Racist?
Two or three decades ago, American multinationals made it a practice to appoint British executives to run their Indian subsidiaries. American executives didn...
Echoes of our views in Niall Ferguson’s Newsweek article – Birth of a Caste in America
On July 21, 2012 we wrote an article titled Birth of a Caste in America? . In that article we argued that the affluent college-educated class in America is turn...
Investment Videoclips of the Week (August 27 – August 31, 2012)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our p...
Ben Bernanke & John Roberts – Compare or Contrast?
Democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. In a democracy, a government comes to power via free and fair elections. Today we see...