This week President Obama announced the end of America’s military venture in Afghanistan. He laid out the time line for the first phase of withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. The pace of this withdrawal is faster than what US Military Commanders want. We are not surprised. When President Obama announced his surge in December…
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When an Enterprise or a relationship goes bad, it usually keeps getting worse. Regardless of how negative expectations get, the reality keeps turning out to be worse. We saw this in the crisis at Lehman Brothers in 2008. At every stage, experts looked at the evidence, the data and came up with their expectations of…
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…
This week, the Government of India took a step that reminded the Indian people of British atrocities. A widely followed Indian Guru named Baba Ramdev came to Delhi to lead a hunger strike as a protest against corruption in the Congress Regime. More than 50,000 people attended the event as a testimony to Ramdev’s popularity….
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Three days ago, about 200 militants from Afghanistan crossed the military line of control into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Pakistan-occupied Pakhtunistan and attacked a military outpost. The battle lasted for two days. A couple of days prior to this attack, the Taleban attacked the city of Herat near the Iran-Afghan border and the city of Taloqan,…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…
Editors’s Note: We consider the New York Times to be, generally speaking, the best newspaper in the world. We have written articles praising the NYT by drawing comparisons with other excellent newspapers. The NYT has excellent reporters who write sensibly about areas they know well. But we also find a strain of cultural and religious…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…