President Obama’s speech on his Afghanistan Strategy on December 3 was probably watched by most of the world. The Afghan mission is simply that critical. This speech showed the struggle between Commander-In-Chief Obama & Politician-In-Chief Obama. In our opinion, President Obama’s decision was the only decision he could have taken to balance the political and tactical needs. We…
ProloguePresident Obama has essentially told the world that the American Military will begin its withdrawal from Afghanistan sometime in or after 2011. Clearly the date is subject to change based on circumstances. But even more clearly, the decision to leave Afghanistan seems firm. This is new news. Many readers may not be aware that when America toppled the…
A few years ago, during the technology bust period, we met a money manager on a flight to San Francisco who remarked to us that he was told by CNBC Anchors in 1999 to only speak bullishly about the market or be prohibited from appearing on their show. We listened politely to his complaint but did…
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 this series…
Editor’s Note; It has been our practice to avoid writing about people or causes dear to us. But sometimes, we come across a story which needs to be told. This is one such.Pratham is a world-renowned Non-Governmental Organization (“NGO“). This is one case where adjectives actually understate the reality. Pratham began in 1994 as a small experiment in Mumbai….
Editor’s Note; It has been our practice to avoid writing about people or causes dear to us. But sometimes, we come across a story which needs to be told. This is one such.When you read or hear about health care in India, the words you hear are “inexpensive” or “cheap”. The allusion is that the primary…
Professor Niall Ferguson of Harvard-Oxford has compared today’s China with “Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany in the years before World War I; a growing, aggressive nationalistic power whose ambitions will tear through pre-existing commercial ties and historic friendships.” That is how David Brooks of the New York Times described Ferguson’s views in his own article Chinese Fireworks Display…
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 this series…
Innovation is a key to enduring competitive advantage. Innovation that can open mass markets becomes an unsurmountable advantage in today’s globalized world. A Barrier To Entry is defined classically as an obstacle that makes it very difficult for a competitor to enter a market.When these concepts were discussed 30 odd years ago, poverty in the developing world…
We began writing about escalation of military & strategic tensions between China & India in June 2008. At that time, we heard Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale make a statement on TV about how the competition between these countries is now economic and how peace is breaking out. Frankly, this was the view in mainstream American &…