According to an article in the Hindustan Times, a 17-year old woman gave birth to a baby boy in her dormitory early morning on Tuesday March 5. She was a student in 11th grade in a government run residential girls school in northwestern India. She delivered a baby boy in the bathroom of her dormitory…
Usually we criticize American press for their blinders when reporting a story from India. Not today and not in this article. Here we feature an article by Mark Magnier of LA Times, an article that is out of the ordinary simply because it tells the new reality of India. Magnier’s article brings to you 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 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 editor@macroviewpoints.com 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…