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Weekend Mega Linkfest:April 01,2015

Long Long weekend ahead on account of Mahavir Jayanti and Good Friday.

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Last chance for Ukraine and Europe (George Soros)

The coming emerging market debt squeeze (Project Syndicate)

The rise and fall of the Drexel Empire (Bloomberg)

The deadly global war of sand (Wired)

The point of being Raza (Open)

Cafe Samovar: That 60’s Vintage (Outlook)

The cult of Kejriwal (Caravan)

How Reliance is taking over Indian media (Tehelka)

How Times Now shamed the nation (Newslaundry)

How Edelweiss built a business for the long run (Forbes)

How the Gluteus became Maximus (Atlantic)

Dear Dairy,I hate you (New Yorker)

Crossing your fingers could reduce pain (Smithsonian)

Travelogue:Camping in the Himalayas (TeamBHP)

How to fake your location in Google Chrome (Labnol)

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Linkfest: April 01,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

You can time the market with these funds (BS)

Retirement planning: My story so far (FreeFinCal)

Interest rates for small savings schemes for 2015-16 (BasuNivesh)

Why Indians do not like medical insurance (Subramoney)

5 Stock Picking Criteria for non-finance guys (Stable Investor)

Prabhudas Lilladher Research Report: Insurance Stocks (RJ)

China’s stock market sure looks like a bubble (WP)

Why you should invest with fund managers who eat their own cooking (Morningstar)

Small investors blame losses on brokers (Yahoo Finance)

Elon Musk created $1 Billion in value with a single tweet (Pando)

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Linkfest: March 31,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

What mid-caps to buy? (BS)

State of bad loans pathetic (Firstpost)

Should you buy Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana? (ET)

NPS Vs Equity Investing (Capital Mind)

Angel Research Report: Bajaj Auto (MyIris)

Fracking is where money goes to die (Daily Reckoning)

Woe betride the Value Investor (Research Affiliates)

Want to avoid a bear market? (Irrelevant Investor)

Are index-fund investors smarter? (Market Watch)

Competing Investing Ideologies (Wealth of  Common Sense)

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Linkfest: March 30,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Spectrum Auctions:The cost of consolidation is high (Mint)

Catholic Syrian Bank to file for IPO in April (Reuters)

NBFCs want to offer 0% EMIs online (Capital Mind)

Peak Gold? Goldman Sachs calculates only 20 years of supply is left (ZeroHedge)

Edelweiss Research Report: ITC (MyIris)

Howard Marks on Liquidity (OakTree)

Dealing with trading setbacks (Adam Grimes)

Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy (Insecurity Analyst)

Going to a top business school will cost you 99,000 $ per year (Bloomberg)

The man who ranks the world’s best whiskies (BS)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: March 27,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Not such an English game anymore (ESPN)

How Ameera Shah powered the rise of Metropolis Healthcare (Forbes)

Re-examining the Vajpayee legacy (SwarajyaMag)

Yemen and beyond (Al Jazeera)

The real Singapore model (Project Syndicate)

A place called Bhatkal (Open)

Moscow:Opulent,overwhelming and pulsing with power (NG)

Sri Lanka: The two faces of paradise (Afar)

Facebook Wall:Team India bows out of World Cup (Unreal Times)

Travelogue: Solo drive to the North East-all 7 sisters (Team BHP)

The World’s most dangerous trail (Smithsonian)

The refreshing bare beauty of Tel Aviv (NYMag)

Bill Ackman’s fight against Herbalife (Vanity Fair)

How the mixed population of Cape Town saw SA lose (Caravan)

The Anti-Modi Christian Agenda-Part 2 (Media Crooks)