Some stuff that I am reading today morning:
Micromax co-founders arrested for bribing officials (Firstpost)
A Goa house in harmony with nature (WSJ)
Home and car loans to cost more (ET)
Raghuram Rajan on central banking (Mint)
PE’s stuck with brokerage deals struck in boom time (BS)
Spin at work: Moneylife interview with NSEL (Moneylife)
How money actually buys happiness (Astraea)
Henry’s war (TRB)
This fund tracks 36 bubbles (Quartz)
Turning water into gold (BBC)
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
Raghuram Rajan is the next RBI governor (ET)
What happens to your e-gold? (Mint)
Weak rupee makes stocks lose strength (BS)
National Spot Exchange:What went wrong (WSJ)
No tears for Durga Shakti (RediscoveryofIndia)
Poverty and state of the blind (MediaCrooks)
The one Q you must ask before you invest (Forbes)
Bill Ackman’s Biggest problem (JoeFahmy)
Carl Icahn:I have made $500 Million on Herbalife (BI)
Jeweler turns smuggler as India gold prices rise (Bloomberg)
Some stuff I am reading today morning:
How to invest when you are deep in debt (Mint)
Over 45% of NSE stocks are trading below 2008 lows (BL)
Govt bans eSeries contracts at NSEL (Moneycontrol)
NSEL Contracts sold as 100% risk free (BS)
800 Crore plot available for 200 Crore (MumbaiMirror)
Engineering graduates get the placement blues (ET)
We are coming for the money (DailyReckoning)
No such thing as a sure thing (Moneybeat)
The art of worldly wisdom (FarnamStreet)
Your most important investing advantage (RandomRoger)
Some stuff that I am reading today morning:
FT’s Jignesh Shah faces an acid test (ET)
FIIs pull out $10.5 Billion from Indian equity markets (FE)
FT’s Jignesh Shah:Beginning of the end? (Mint)
Govt’s dash for cash triggers meltdown in PSU stocks (BS)
CNN-IBN:Fake Debates and Communal Incitement (Mediacrooks)
Financial literacy is a joke (Subramoney)
Why are America’s value managers hoarding cash? (TRB)
A fool proof plan for true market timers (Forbes)
Life in a modern debtor nation (DailyReckoning)
Death of a language (SandeepWeb)
Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The patriotic ant bully (Open)
Why Manmohan Singh does not respond to Manmohan Singh (Tehelka)
Then there stood none (Outlook)
Hot and bothered (Caravan)
KRK-Saving us from one bad movie at a time (Newslaundry)
The potato farming success of Gujarat’s Banaskantha district (Forbes)
Fear and loathing in Risk Street (MoneyLife)
Military:Arrogance of seniority (IDR)
Climate change can increase armed conflicts by 50% worldwide (Smithsonian)
Oil-Yesterday’s fuel (Economist)
Meaning is healthier than happiness (Atlantic)
The curious case of Digvijaya Singh (UnrealTimes)
My week in North Korea (Reason)
In the violent Favelas of Brazil (SuketuMehta)
Travelogue:Birding trip to Gujarat (TeamBHP)
Flipkart 200M funding:Doodh ka Doodh, paani ka paani (Rodinhoods)
20 Google shortcuts to hone your Google-Fu (Lifehacker)
Links for movie buffs (JaiArjun)