Most people are aware of India’s first war for independence against British Rule in 1857. What many don’t realize is that East India Company, a private British company, had captured all of India long before that by using Indian soldiers, Indian money & coercing local Indian kinglets to become suzereins. The first step of…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
This week South India was rocked by a huge protest against a decision of the Indian Supreme Court against a 12-century temple in the state of Keral, South India. The previously eminent newspaper that sadly bears the name of our city had to report its own opinion about the protest. The New York Times…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
The drama about Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court was something we had not seen before. Even the Clarence Thomas – Anita Hill conflict seemed to pale in comparison. As we recall, the fury of the debate between the accusations by Anita Hill and defense by Judge Clarence Thomas was essentially between those…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
In a classic Agatha Christie novel, The Secret of Chimneys, the hero uses the phrase “What do we know of England who only England know?”. This is a rare book of hers, a book that doesn’t feature her incomparable characters like Hercule Poirot, Mrs. Jane Marple. First published in 1925, it is a book…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Unless you live in a land where you are completely cut off from the rest of the World, you have heard of the accusation of sexual assault against Judge Kavanaugh, the nominee for the US Supreme Court. The accusation, made recently by a college professor in California, is that Mr. Kavanaugh tried to rape…