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Weekend Mega Linkfest:December 12,2014

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How to save money while shopping online in India (Labnol)

Shekhar Gupta:Capital Reporter (Caravan)

The Gopichand Factory (Open)

Dilip Kumar:Peshawar 92 years ago (Outlook)

How M&M came to dominate the Indian automotive industry (ForbesIndia)

ISIS:The inside story (Guardian)

Welcome to Paradise (Telegraph)

The Chinese Century (Joseph Stieglitz)

Afghanistan:The making of a Narco State (Rolling Stone)

An open letter to Suhel Seth (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:The Jaisalmer Desert Festival (TeamBHP)

The untold story of Pakistan’s blasphemy law (Dawn)

M K Raghavendra on the new Bollywood (JaiArjun)

What I learnt from 10 years of IT career (Rodinhoods)

Parsis:The fear of extinction (Open)

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Linkfest:December 12,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

How to really invest like a billionaire (MarketWatch)

Solar power can be for India what Shale is to the US (ET)

Kotak-ING Vysya deal under union cloud (Mint)

Oil at $60 is not all positive (Akash Prakash)

Concentrated or Diversified Portfolio (Prashant)

Investing Lessons from Bharat Shah (Contrarian Edge)

Lessons learned from 2014 (Alliance Bernstein)

Sometimes markets are stupid (Big Picture)

Cliff Asness:Efficient ‘Frontier’ theory for the long run (AQR)

10 Legendary Investment rules from legendary investors (Street Talk)

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Linkfest:December 11,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Big boost to Insurance,GST reforms (Mint)

Why Mukesh Ambani is selling his father’s first major business (FirstBiz)

Dear Foreign Investor,We love your money not you (Menaka Doshi)

Best bank savings account for women (MyInvestmentIdeas)

Ignore forecasters at all costs (Swedroe)

Jeff Gundlach:This time it is different (BI)

People will never learn (CommonSense)

Jack Bogle:Active investor in passive clothing (PragCap)

Where are the economist’s yachts? (Investing Caffeine)

The price of gold in the year 2160 (BaselineScenario)

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Linkfest:December 10,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Greece lurches back into crisis mode (Bloomberg)

Google 72 hour sale to be a mega online shopping fest (FE)

When should I retire? (FreeFinCal)

Jack Bogle:I wouldn’t invest outside the US (Bloomberg)

Value+Momentum:The tortoise and the hare (MillenialInvest)

Lessons from the forgotten Depression (DailyReckoning)

A dozen things I have learnt from Bill Ackman (25iq)

Being “Oversold” or  “Overbought” is not good enough (AThrasher)

Five life lessons from the trading trenches (TraderFeed)

Fund Managers:How to put together a great presentation (BeyondProxy)

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Linkfest:December 09,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Only 6 months jail for Satyam Rajus (FirstBiz)

Spicejet cancels over 1800 flights (Mint)

Infosys founder stake sale:Should you worry? (BS)

Supreme Court wants to run the country (Jaggi)

Pune real estate market has crashed-True or False? (Ravi)

Passive investing’s foundations (Swedroe)

Why does everybody recommend complex portfolios? (Oblivious Investor)

Mario Gabelli on the beauty of compound interest (Bloomberg)

India breaking free from emerging market mess (SeeItMarket)

Goody two shoes (Media Crooks)