We are rather naive in our outlook, we confess. We like to hold on to something as sacrosanct. But sadly much of what we held as above material motives is succumbing to the pressures of money. Academic scholars whom we respected were slowly revealed as caring far more about raising or making money than about…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting tweets, articles, videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television, Tweeter, and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing…
Every positive article about the U.S. economy bases at least part of its optimism on America’s domestic energy bonanza. That is also true of negative articles such as Ian Bremmer’s The Tragic Decline of American Foreign Policy: “Improving US fundamentals, a steadily recovering jobs market, and revolution in energy production remind us that Americans aren’t…
Remember what respected analyst James Grant said on March 25, 2013? “I think the world is always looking for the next growth story and I would nominate India. … Narendra Modi, a.k.a. NaMo, has vowed to put his vast, poor and comprehensively mismanaged country on the road to modernity. Now under way is a financial…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting articles, tweets, videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television, Tweeter, and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing…
This week the hate campaign in the US-British media against Mr. Modi reached feverish proportions. We were struck by the consistency of hate across the media spectrum from the NYT-WashPost echelon to the lower more rabid level of Vox & Foreign Policy magazine. This heightened rage is probably due to this past week’s polling in…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Below are the 10 most popular articles of Q1 2014: 1. Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 13 – August 17, 2012) – August 18, 2012 2. Attock – If you have not heard of Attock, Read this Article – August 9, 2008 3. Cultural & Religious Defamation Tacitly Accepted By New York Times Editors?- Our Perspectives – January 23, 2010 4. Cricket…
Great societies remain great because they do big things and change the face of the world. Centuries ago Indian navies discovered a port at the other end of the Malacca Straits, a port that could facilitate naval commercial traffic as well as choke it if necessary. They named it Sinha-Pur, “Sinha” being the Sanskrut word…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…