Below are this week’s articles on Macro Viewpoints: Agriculture Nightmare – Is Indian Electocracy India’s Worst Enemy? >>>> Nothing Especially Chinese about Chinese Development Model? >>>> Classical Music in New York >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 23 – March 28, 2013) >>>> Send your feedback to [email protected] Or @MacroViewpoints on Twitter
For decades, mothers around the world told their children not to waste food because of the millions of starving people in India. That India was a beggar with its ministers running around the world begging for aid from every country that could spare some. Today the situation seems radically different, at least on the production…
This statement, perhaps shocking to many, is one of the arguments that made Michael Pettis a respected name among economic thinkers. In his book The Great Rebalancing, Professor Pettis devotes a long well-argued chapter to making his case of Unbalanced Growth in China. He argues that, “It is a mistake to characterize China as an…
Recently, the India Ink blog of the New York Times published a Music & Dance feature in their Mumbai/New York project. Readers might recall that we were thrilled to see a project that tries to bring Mumbai & New York together. We still are happy with the concept. But the NYT articles detract from 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…
Below are the articles published this week on Macro Viewpoints: Gold – Are Indian People Smarter than Indian Finance Officials & Media? >>>> Germany-Cyprus-Russia vs. USA-FNMA-China >>>> Crisis in Europe & “The Great Rebalancing” by Michael Pettis >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 16 – March 22, 2013) >>>>
Finances of the Indian Government are a disaster or at best a disaster waiting to happen. This is not news to any one who even remotely looks at the policies of the Indian Government. Large fiscal deficits, runaway spending, rampant corruption are among the most obvious problems. The Indian people can’t really do anything about…
How many of us had thought about Cyprus until this week? How many of us were aware that Cyprus had become a global tax haven with a obese banking sector about 8 times the size of its tiny GDP? (Banking sector in Europe is 3 times Europe’s GDP & US banking sector is 1 times…
This week the European Crisis reemerged. The European Union acted with utterly inconceivable stupidity in confiscating a portion of monies of depositors in Cyprus banks. Reportedly this was a German decision that was imposed on Cyprus in a do it or go bankrupt fashion demonstrating that the European Union is becoming a German-led autocracy rather…
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…