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Observations

Checkmate

Find it interesting how the Modi Govt has moved fast to checkmate the legendary Indian Jugaad

Jugaad: Buy gold with cash.

Govt Response: IT raids on Jewellers 

Jugaad: Buy $ with cash.

Govt Response: IT raids on Hawala Dealers

Jugaad: Buy Appliances/Mobile Phones with cash.

Govt Response: IT scrutiny on all back dated purchases

Jugaad: Buy Railways Tickets with cash and then cancel and claim refund

Govt Response: All cancellations above 50K to be directly deposited in bank accounts

Jugaad: Buy Airline Tickets with cash and then cancel and claim refund

Govt Response: Only non-cancellable airline tickets can be purchased with cash

Jugaad: Rent out Jan Dhan accounts.

Govt Response: Not more than 50,000 Rs deposit in Jan Dhan accounts

Jugaad: Pay people money to stand in line and exchange cash.

Govt Response: Indelible ink to mark people exchanging cash

CHECKMATE

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Chart Currencies

Chart: Asian Currencies fall to 7 year low

Source:Bloomberg

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Cartoon

India’s 9-11

Source: Satish Acharya

 

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Links

Linkfest: November 15,2016

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Demonetisation a double whammy for MFIs (Yahoo)

The Un-Real Estate badly hit (IE)

Demonetisation effect on Sales of New/Used Cars (TeamBHP)

Interview with CLSA’s Christopher Wood (Mint)

Relevance of Regulatory Risk (Bala)

Outperforming by Underperforming (ThinkNewFound)

A tale of two investors (Bps)

Distraction and Mission (A VC)

The bright side of rising interest rates (CS)

Fooled by Randomness (Barry)

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Forwards

Mumbo Jumbo

Source:Got this as a WhatsApp Forward

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