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Vivek Kaul

Mint columnist

Vivek Kaul is the author of 'Bad Money'.

ARTICLES BY VIVEK KAUL

SIPs and equity MFs aren’t the only way to invest in stocks indirectly. (AI-generated Image)

Vivek Kaul: are systematic investment plans victims of their own success?

5 min read . 24 Aug 2026

Demand for Treasuries fell among other investors as they believed that Trump’s actions would fuel inflation. (REUTERS)

Vivek Kaul: The bond market called Trump’s bluff but the coast is still hazy

4 min read . 15 Apr 2025

Universal tariffs usually lead to bleak economic outcomes.

Vivek Kaul: ‘Stupid, stupid, stupid’ is the only way to describe US tariffs

4 min read . 07 Apr 2025

The digital system as it has evolved is at the heart of such things. (Pixabay)

Vivek Kaul: Fast thinking is the great enabler of digital fraud

4 min read . 01 Apr 2025

The LTCG tax hike can’t be the main reason behind FIIs selling out of Indian stocks.

Vivek Kaul: Is capital gains tax to blame for the exodus of foreign investors?

4 min read . 18 Mar 2025

The individual rationality of investing in stocks through SIPs led to the aggregate irrationality of making Indian stocks overvalued. (AI-generated image)

Vivek Kaul: The ‘fallacy of composition’ has left equity fund investors reeling

4 min read . 04 Mar 2025

Several factors can randomly come together and create a beneficial situation—or what we call luck. (Bloomberg)

Vivek Kaul: Will the government run out of luck with its securities transaction

4 min read . 18 Feb 2025

The hope possibly is that a pickup in private consumption might motivate companies to invest and expand. (Image: Pixabay)

Vivek Kaul: Does the budget signal a change in the government’s growth strategy?

4 min read . 04 Feb 2025

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives to present the 2020 budget in Parliament, New Delhi. (Photo: Mint)

How to explain the budget to a teenager

9 min read . 30 Jan 2025

“You want to talk about the budget at 2.40am?” (Tarun Kumar Sahu/Mint )

Samosas, tea and a stormy night discussion on how the Budget affects the economy

9 min read . 29 Jan 2025

The budget is a statement of account of the government’s expenditures during the next financial year along with the income it expects to earn. Illustration: Ashish Asthana/Mint

How to explain the Budget to your grandma

10 min read . 28 Jan 2025

“How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?” (Ashish Asthana/Mint)

How to explain the budget to an engineer

10 min read . 25 Jan 2025

Mutual funds tried to cash in by launching new schemes around which narratives had been built. (FIIs).

Vivek Kaul: The New Year is teaching retail investors old lessons

4 min read . 21 Jan 2025

Bryan Adams performing in Abu Dhabi.

Vivek Kaul: Ravichandran Ashwin and the winter of ’24 in the summer of ’69

13 min read . 04 Jan 2025

There are multiple factors that will hold back the government from cutting taxes.

Vivek Kaul: The Union budget should focus on reviving private consumption

4 min read . 01 Jan 2025

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

Vivek Kaul: Warren Buffett and the mediocrity of investing

8 min read . 28 Dec 2024

Essentially, while other countries have to earn dollars in order to pay for anything priced in the US currency, the US has the option of simply printing them.

Vivek Kaul: Trump’s tariffs won’t kill the dollar’s exorbitant privilege

4 min read . 24 Dec 2024

Last year, I completed 98 books. This year, I am likely to end up closer to 90.

Vivek Kaul: The best books I read in 2024

10 min read . 18 Dec 2024

A central bank cannot simultaneously achieve three objectives: Free international capital movement, a fixed exchange rate and an independent monetary policy. It can only choose two.

Vivek Kaul: RBI’s new governor will have to confront a tricky old trilemma

4 min read . 17 Dec 2024

Bob Dylan performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 13 November.

Vivek Kaul: Bob Dylan and a story I won’t be telling my grandchildren

13 min read . 11 Dec 2024