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…
Editor’s Note: This is an article about Washington Post, CNBC and Financial Television media in general. It is NOT an investment article. No one should NOT invest or consider any investment based on any information contained in or inferred from this article or any portion of it. All investment decisions or conclusions should be discussed…
Editor’s Note: This is an article about biases of Financial reporters and media in general. It is NOT an investment article. No one should NOT invest or consider any investment based on any information contained in or inferred from this article or any portion of it. All investment decisions or conclusions should be discussed with your investment…
It happened again this week or so went the outcry in India. A young photojournalist went to a desolate section in the heart of central Mumbai with a male colleague. Five young men cornered them, tied up the man and gang-raped the woman. This sent a shock wave through out urban India. Mumbai, our lovely…
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…