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Linkfest:July 29,2014

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Taxman trains focus on big spenders in 8 cities (BL)

Is MCX over Jignesh Shah yet? (Mint)

JSW Steel wants to pay promoter’s wife for brand promotion (BS)

Why India may have to wait longer for rate cut (FirstBiz)

Acche Din for Reliance Power investors? (FE)

Facebook’s India problem:100M users,only 0.1% revenue (ET)

Concerns about Individual Investors in Indian Equity Derivatives Market (AjayShah)

10 Things Americans have suddenly stopped buying (Time)

Life Expectancy and Longevity Risk (CommonSense)

Yukos owners win $50 Billion in fight against Russia (Bloomberg)

India in the World Wars-How we fought and why (TOI)

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Linkfest:July 28,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

First Quarter results show India Inc losing momentum (BL)

Reliance Power to buy Jaypee’s Hydro Projects (Mint)

Tailwinds give Anil Agarwal a reason to cheer (BS)

Here are 8 habits of India’s super rich (FirstBiz)

10 Tax Charts (SimpleTaxIndia)

The inability and incompetence of Kolte Patil Developers (Ravi)

The elusive Pure Insurance (Balakrishnan)

The myth of the passive Investor (Bernstein)

10 things you should know about Ace Greenberg (TRB)

So you’re the world’s greatest trader?Taxes will fix that (WP)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: July 25,2014

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Burger King is run by children (BusinessWeek)

A desperate town hands over its DNA (PSMag)

How the Israel-Palestine peace deal died (NewRepublic)

An ode to the Bee Gees (ParisReview)

Travelogue:Sana’a ,the capital of Yemen (IdleWords)

Pitbull:Get Rich or Die Shilling (BusinessWeek)

Music,fantasy and colour in V Shantaram’s Navrang (JaiArjun)

Aap Ki Adalat to replace the judicial system (UnrealTimes)

India’s Chinese Dream (ProjectSyndicate)

Travelogue:Mandarmani & Tajpur (TeamBHP)

Israel’s Other War (NewYorker)

What happened to Dinesh D’Souza? (Atlantic)

Why the Japanese are having so few babies (Economist)

Turning Ethiopia into China’s China (BusinessWeek)

Persistence of the Rahul Gandhi Question (Open)

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Linkfest:July 25,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Cabinet approves 49% FDI in Insurance (Mint)

Its a global bull party (BL)

Brokers use HNI demat accounts to invest in bonds,NCDs (ET)

Will investors show up for SAIL? (WSJ)

If there was no TCS,there maybe no Tata Group worth speaking about (FirstBiz)

Wall Street means fooling all the people all the time (Guardian)

“What have you done for me lately?” (TRB)

Gold Prices explained (CrossingWallStreet)

Financiers turning strawberries into securities (Dealbook)

The Gringo’s guide to the Argentine debt crisis (SeMancha)

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Linkfest:July 24, 2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

TCS’s market cap crosses 5 Lakh Crores (BL)

This is why shorting stocks is so brutal (BI)

Number of ultra rich in India to rise three fold in next 3 years(FE)

Lets stop fooling ourselves about “honest” Manmohan Singh (Firstpost)

PPF-A must have investment (ApnaPlan)

15 things you must know about your money (SafalNiveshak)

Ben Graham:Father of the Efficient Market Hypothesis? (CommonSense)

7 Truths Investors cannot accept (Kindergarten)

Mistrust the financial story tellers (PSyFi)

The trade-off between diversification and knowledge (MorningStar)