Category: Links

A long long weekend ahead on account of Mahavir Jayanti and Good Friday.

Here’s what I am reading over the weekend:

An eyeopener-Why Las Vegas is moving to Macau (New Yorker)

How investing turns nice people into psychopaths (Atlantic)

The Yangon spring (Economist)

Cars that can run over 200000 miles (Forbes)

Timeshare prices plummet to 1$ (Smart Money)

An extra ordinary story – The man who wore a sanitary napkin (Open)

One man Army-Gen V K Singh (Tehelka)

Profile of one of my favorite financial analysts Neeraj Monga of Vertias (Outlook )

Tata’s new range of defence vehicles (Team BHP)

The case against kids-Is having kids immoral ? (New Yorker)

Some stuff I am reading this morning:

Ten Things to know about Home Insurance (Moneycontrol)

Hedge funds try new approach in India (WSJ)

The Japanese Professor who is teaching India Inc (ET)

Mutual Funds lose 36,000 Crores worth of assets (Financial Express)

Court frames charges against RIL officials, Mukesh Ambani let off (SuchetaDalal)

The BRICS summit-the Chinese ate all the mutton chops (Bloomberg)

A paradox-Avoid correlation by following all the trends (Allaboutalpha)

Warren Buffett:Hypocrite Extraordinaire? (DailyReckoning)

(Technorati Claim: WEKR4Y4RD7RW )

Hot links of the day:

India is closed for business (Firstpost)

Can the Tatas hold on to their Taj property in Delhi ?(ET)

Record FII flows in 2012 ?( Business Standard)

RBI Watch:Study of State Finances 2011-12 (RBI)

Insight is not advice (The Reformed Broker)

Whitney Tilson’s March 2012 Letter to Investors (InvestingNotebook)

Is US the new Middle East ? (Bloomberg)

The most expensive real estate in the world (WSJ)

Some stuff I am reading this morning:

CBI to file chargesheet against Aurobindo Pharma MD ? (Business Line)

Why the gloom is likely to persist (Mint)

FII Withdrawal Symptoms (Business Standard)

India’s economic monsoon (FT)

SEBI Watch:Broad guidelines on algorithmic trading (SEBI)

RBI Watch:Great speech by RBI governor on globalization (RBI)

Euro was flawed at birth and should break up now (Bloomberg)

Ten most foolish things a trader can do (Newtraderu)

Keynes as an investor (WSJ)

Warren Buffett scorns gold.Bad move ! (Daily Reckoning)

Did Goldman Sachs own a prostitution website ? (Nytimes)