Business Bring down the rates RBI's big decision on interest rates and Samsung's move to shift its production base to India.
Policy Hiding in Plain Sight One thing that did not get as much attention during the recent presser from the Finance Ministry was the treatment of bad loans, specifically bad loans from the MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) sector. And that’s our focus on today’s newsletter.
Policy Weekly Wrapup-The Gamechanger On this week’s wrapup, we have stories about corporate tax rate cuts, the government’s plan to run a fire sale, the PMC Bank fiasco and a review of the IRCTC IPO.
Policy The Economic Impact of Climate Change In today's newsletter we cover the economic impact of climate change and a potential 2500 Crores scam.
Policy The ₹1,000 Panic Attack Mayhem in the streets. Customers clamor for deposits and RBI sets withdrawal limits on the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank.
Policy The Great Purge In today's newsletter we talk about the government's plan to sell stake in Air India and the fall of the legendary travel company Thomas Cook.
Policy The Problem with Animal Spirits In today's newsletter we discuss the downside of reducing corporate taxes and the rising onion prices
Policy Waking the Animal Spirits Usually we do a weekly wrap up on Saturday. However we had to make an exception today, because the finance minister dropped a bombshell. Our big story today on the corporate tax rate cut.
Business The Gutsy Founder? Ritesh Agarwal’s extravagant ambitions with OYO and the problem with auction of 5G spectrum
Capital Markets The Big US Rate Cut In today's newsletter we cover the implications of a Federal Reserve Rate cut and the Indian government's recent proposal to ban e-cigarettes.
Policy Fixing the Real Estate Mess Now clearly a lot of people were unhappy with the fact that we simply glossed over the recent press conference by Nirmala Sitharaman. So we thought we would revisit the matter once again.
Policy Weekly Wrap up - So close, yet so far This week was all about getting close to the finish line
Policy Are Millennials to be blamed for the Auto Slowdown? So Nirmala Sitharaman's Press Conference on Tuesday really kicked off a Twitter storm didn’t it? That is our main story for today...
Policy The Link is Complete or is it? The RBI has now made it mandatory for banks to link all floating rate loans to an external benchmark and we need to talk about this. This story is just one big translation
Policy Why we should go back to the Moon? In today’s newsletter, we discuss the monetary impact of space exploration and Zomato’s new push for automation.
Business Why is Apple getting a loan? Ever wonder why Apple Keeps borrowing when it has $210 billion lying idle in its bank account?
Business The Trouble Keeps Piling on Looks like the recent Mega bank merger went wrong. Well, that's what the wisdom of crowds think it is. Why is it so?
Policy The Great Big Fine The New Motor Vehicles Act has suddenly made it very expensive for people to flout traffic norms. We are talking about fines ranging from Rs. 500 to a mind-boggling Rs. 23,000. And we need to talk about this.
Policy The 5 Trillion Summit The GDP numbers are finally in. 5% is what we could muster last quarter.... What lead to this slowdown in India's growth?
Policy Weekly Wrapup- The Clash of Giants This week, we saw a lot of breaking news. From the RBI's decision to transfer a whopping Rs. 1.76 Lakh Crore to the government, to NHAI's massive debt pileup. It couldn't have gotten more interesting and we have the complete wrap-up right here.
Policy The Big Bad Debt Problem A letter from Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday said that “road infrastructure has become financially unviable” and that NHAI is “totally log jammed with unplanned and excessive expansion of roads”
Policy The FDI Bonanza The government wants more companies to "Make in India" and Xiaomi wants your data. Today’s newsletter on new FDI norms and the good old Privacy debate.
Policy A Raid on the RBI or is it? There's only one big story for the day and it's on the RBI's decision to transfer a whopping Rs. 1.76 Lakh crore to the government.
