On the other hand

While issuing an advisory is a step in the right direction, expecting those in the business of selling shares to carry out due diligence in a way that will help prospective investors only reveals a weak understanding of history.

Here’s why the shares of small businesses sell at inflated prices

4 min read . 10 Sep 2024

A more diverse set of investors investing in Indian government bonds and increasingly scrutinizing public finances as well as India’s economy could lead the bond market to serve as a much better ‘early warning system,’ helping discipline the government of the day. (REUTERS)

India’s inclusion in JPMorgan’s bond index needs sober analysis

4 min read . 03 Oct 2023

Central bankers forgot Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Central bankers should ponder coin tossing odds and avoid golf

4 min read . 09 Aug 2023

Prosus has concerns about the “strategic, operational, legal, and corporate governance matters” of Byju’s, which means pretty much everything.

Venture capitalists find it tough to escape the ‘sunk cost’ fallacy

4 min read . 01 Aug 2023

Tourists see reels by influencers and throng places all at once on weekends, making more reels and taking more pictures, and posting them across social media.

Chetan Bhagat has good reason to be unhappy with influencers

4 min read . 26 Jul 2023

The covid pandemic led to big-time OTT adoption, with rich multiplex audiences figuring out that their kind of content could easily be watched on OTT platforms in home comfort. (Bloomberg)

‘Jawan’ and ‘RARKPK’ could fill Bollywood coffers briefly at best

4 min read . 18 Jul 2023

Retail investors got too little joy from the Sensex hitting a peak

4 min read . 28 Jun 2023

(Hindustan Times)

Let Indian male cricketers play in foreign T20 leagues as well

4 min read . 21 Jun 2023

The report makes no mention of India's K-shaped economic recovery after the pandemic in which the sale of entry-level cars has crashed while demand for SUVs has shot up (Photo: Bloomberg)

Morgan Stanley’s report on India is an exercise in cherry-picking

7 min read . 07 Jun 2023

The only way to make sure that you as an investor aren’t taken for a ride is to have some knowledge of personal finance. And if that is the case, you might as well manage your money than go to an investment professional. (iStockphoto)

Why the time of do-it-yourself investing might just have arrived

4 min read . 31 May 2023

The withdrawal of ₹2,000 notes is short of a rational explanation

4 min read . 24 May 2023

Artificial general intelligence may make UBI adoption a must

4 min read . 16 May 2023

India’s stumble on rupee trading holds a lesson on globalization

4 min read . 10 May 2023

The impact of the spread of ChatGPT-like technologies is likely to be more on white-collar workers than manual ones (REUTERS)

We should ponder the political impact of AI chatbot disruption

4 min read . 03 May 2023

India’s recent startup valuation boom was simply too good to last

4 min read . 26 Apr 2023

There is good reason for the US Fed’s rate path to be this foggy

4 min read . 18 Apr 2023

The growing pains of retail investors: Do they truly exhibit maturity?

4 min read . 12 Apr 2023

India’s K-shaped housing sector is in need of reformist tax tweaks

4 min read . 05 Apr 2023

A big shift in debt fund taxation has ended ‘revdis’ for India’s rich

4 min read . 30 Mar 2023

The Fed’s money printing can be traced to the Great Gatsby curve

4 min read . 22 Mar 2023