Below are this week’s articles on Macro Viewpoints: Ronald Reagan – So Easy to Admire, So Hard to Emulate >>>> Who Would Want this Indian Rupee? >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 7 – September 13, 2013) >>>> Send your feedback to editor@macroviewpoints.com Or @MacroViewpoints on Twitter
Remember Sirens from Greek Mythology? Those beautiful and dangerous femme fatales whose music and lure proved irresistible to the sailors of those days. Try as mightily as they could, the determined sailors of old simply could not resist the sound of haunting music of the Sirens. So as moths to flame, the sailors would turn…
Imagine an American work program that guarantees work for 100 days per year for two-thirds of American population. Since the Government cannot guarantee a job, the program would actually guarantee payment to 200 million Americans for 100 eight-hour days at the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Total cost = 100*8*7.25*200mm = 1,160,000 million dollars…
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 this week’s articles on Macro Viewpoints: Why is Indian Democracy So Stable? >>>> Raghuram Rajan & Hira Rabbani Khar – Compare & Contrast? >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 1 – September 6, 2013) >>>> Send your feedback to editor@macroviewpoints.com Or @MacroViewpoints on Twitter
Sixty-seventy years ago much of today’s world emerged from European colonial occupation with great hope for their future. That hope has died in most countries. Look at Egypt and Yugoslavia, the leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1950s. Yugoslavia doesn’t even exist and Egypt is once again a military dictatorship that is killing its…
The normally hyperactive Indian media went into turbo hyper-drive this week as they welcomed Raghuram Rajan as the new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Keith Bradsher of the New York Times acknowledged this gushing in the opening paragraph of his own article: “Indian newspapers have been gushing about the new governor of the…
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…
Last week, we wondered whether the Indian Rupee had stopped its waterfall decline and found a temporary bottom. A behavioral signal for that question was media over-hype. A more technical signal was a trend exhaustion pattern in the Indian Rupee and in U.S. interest rates. We wrote last week: “So we wouldn’t be surprised to…
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…