Recession – What India should do?

Contrary to the claims of the Finance Minister, India is in recession. Even the RBI agrees. Inequality is on the rise. From jobless growth, we are in 'job loss' growth. Study after study confirms...

Read more November 29, 2022 at 1:42 pm Thomas Franco

The State of Finance in India Report 2021-22

The State of Finance in India report is a first of its kind that expands the domain of finance and economics beyond the confines of ivory tower experts.

Read more November 28, 2022 at 2:56 pm CFA

नोटेबंदी पर RBI की भविष्यवाणी कैसे हुई सच? | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

नोटबंदी की बात करने से केंद्र सरकार हमेशा कतराती रही है। लेकिन पिछले हफ्ते जब सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने नोटबंदी के खिलाफ याचिका पर सुनवाई शुरू की तो उन्हें मजबूर होना पड़ा। केंद्र सरकार ने...

Read more November 26, 2022 at 2:44 pm CFA

What RBI told Modi about demonetisation and how it turned out to be true | THE MONEY TRAIL

The Union Government has always shied away from talking about demonetisation. But last week they were forced to, as the Supreme Court is hearing the petition against demonetisation. The Union Government in its affidavit...

Read more November 24, 2022 at 12:54 pm CFA

While the RBI was sleeping…

Nearly a month after Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava raised a stink by saying that people’s ability to buy small cars has eroded and would continue to decline next year and national dailies reported...

Read more November 23, 2022 at 12:39 pm Prasanna Mohanty

Why are Public Sector Banks performing better?

The quarter 2 results of the public sector banks are noteworthy compared to a few years ago. All these banks showed good profits in the financial year 2021-22. Twelve PSBs made a net profit...

Read more November 15, 2022 at 3:24 pm Thomas Franco

The biggest hurdle in facing the recession is the Govt’s lack of political will

“In my entire career as a public servant I haven't witnessed the extraction of public wealth for private profit on the scale that we see today”, said Jawhar Sircar, Rajya Sabha member, Trinamool Congress,...

Read more November 12, 2022 at 7:10 pm CFA

Government in Denial of Economic Recession; The Repercussions will be Unprecedented: Conference on Finance

“The government had borrowed money from the IMF during the pandemic and yet did not spend it in order to keep the fiscal deficit in control! This internalisation of keeping the fiscal deficit under...

Read more November 11, 2022 at 9:23 pm CFA

EWS Quota: Can targeting 90% of Indians be called reservation, affirmative action or positive discrimination?

Until now, reservation was prompted by the perennial caste-based discrimination system, which has pushed a significant population into multiple deprivations; upper castes suffer no such handicap.

Read more November 10, 2022 at 9:31 pm Prasanna Mohanty

महंगाई का पारा कैसे चढ़ा? क्या रिज़र्व बैंक कभी बताएगा?

मुद्रास्फीति को 6% की सीमा तोड़े 9 महीने से अधिक समय गुजर चुका है। कानून के अनुसार, आरबीआई को महंगाई को नियंत्रित न कर पाने पर अपनी विफलता पर सरकार को जवाब देना चाहिए।

Read more November 10, 2022 at 5:45 pm CFA

From Desperation to Destitution to Despair

The callous and unwarranted announcement of demonetisation in November 2016 was one of the cruellest blows to the majority of India’s citizens, compelling them to plunge from what was already a life of desperation...

Read more November 8, 2022 at 5:16 pm Ritu Dewan

IDBI Privatisation: Betrayal with Parliamentary Mandate & Mandate of the Constitution

After getting independence in the year 1947, India adopted the process of planning for the economic development of the country. As soon as it became a republic, in 1950, the first five-year plan was...

Read more November 7, 2022 at 10:59 am Devidas Tuljapurkar

How the CSR is being systemically killed

While there is no way of knowing if companies are really spending 2% of their net profits, the Centre has removed critical disclosure norms, making CSR activities entirely opaque and unaccountable Having diluted corporate...

Read more October 28, 2022 at 2:49 pm Prasanna Mohanty

Loan Mela to Rozgar Mela -Hoodwinking People, the BJP Style

Registration for the Rozgar Mela 2022 is going to start online for 9,74,327 vacancies. Let us look at the details first.

Read more October 27, 2022 at 4:46 pm Thomas Franco

IDBI Bank Sale—The Height of Madness

When the Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to economists for their work on “why banks should not be allowed to fail,” the Union Government announced an Expression of Interest in selling IDBI Bank.

Read more October 12, 2022 at 5:57 pm Thomas Franco

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