Below are our 10 most popular articles of First Quarter of 2016. Amazingly 3 of the top 4 articles are about one subject – the history of Bajirao Peshva. 1. Descendants of Bajirao & His Generals – Evidence of Why India Tends to Collapse? – January 2, 2016 2. The Largest Battle of the 18th Century…
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…
We wish all readers a Happy New Year on this Gudhi Paadva, the first new moon of the month of Chaitra. It is the day that Brahma-Dev recreated the world after the massive flood that swept away the previous civilization. Every household hangs a Gudhi in the right side of the main entrance of…
Nothing is so satisfying in life as seeing lowly ranked people or underdogs rise in spontaneous valor to defeat the high & mighty. Competitive Sports deliver that more than any other enterprise. Just look what happened last Monday. A small school in Philadelphia named Villanova had achieved the unreal when they defeated the heavily favored…
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…
Earlier this week Mark Halperin stunned us with his pro-Trump comment on his daily Bloomberg show “With All Due Respect”. Halperin said to his co-host John Heilemann that Trump’s foreign policy views contain refreshing innovative insight or words to that effect. Then he added that the insight is getting lost in the heat of…
Last week’s massacre of Christians in Lahore was widely reported in American media, perhaps because this was one of the first attacks specifically directed against Christians in that regime. We saw discussions in Foreign Affairs, the Economist and US press about the failure of Islamabad’s policy of differentiating between “bad” terrorists & “good” terrorists…
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…
The dominant force in the 21st century has been globalization. This phenomenon began in 2002 with China’s entry into WTO. Distance simply evaporated as a concept. Businesses moved to China & other emerging markets in search of cheaper places & ways to produce goods & services for the Western economies. Several hundred million people…
This week ISIS struck again in Europe. The carnage in Brussels reminded us of the even more horrific attack on Paris on November 13, 2015. Eleven days after that, on November 24, Turkey shot down a Russian plane. Four days later we wrote our article comparing Turkey & NonPakistan. Specifically we argued then: “The…