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Linkfest:Sept 25,2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

FT’s audited statements unreliable says auditors who audited and signed it (Moneycontrol)

“All in the family earnings” and misgovernance in Asia (Beyonproxy)

India begins to win its demographic battle (Mint)

Cyrus Mistry buys shares in Tata Group companies (ET)

New postal act could deal blow to $2 Billion Courier Sector (BS)

Moily unveils austerity scheme to curb oil imports (FE)

Thoughts on Blackburry and Microsoft as a value trap (AswathDamodaran)

One big trader lost millions betting on Romney (WSJ)

China just bought 5% of Ukraine (Quartz)

The “Sample Flat” scam:Learn how builders trap property buyers (JagoInvestor)

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Linkfest:Sept 24,2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Prem Watsa saves Blackberry (ET)

Blackberry strikes deal for $4.7 Billion (WSJ)

Supreme Court:Aadhar can’t be mandatory (Mint)

Analjit Singh strikes gold again (BS)

Why savvy brokers got trapped in NSEL (Moneycontrol)

Why nonsense in inevitable to Mr.Ananthamurthy (SandeepWeb)

Return of the iZombies (DailyReckoning)

Steve Cohen not the only one sick of his ex-wife (Dealbreaker)

Advisers are dead even on market timing (RickFerri)

How Mohnish Pabrai crushed the market (Forbes)

My close encounters with the lions in Botswana (Twistedswifter)

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Linkfest:Sept 23,2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Top Builders sitting on Rs.58000 Crore Inventory (BS)

RBI Governor prescribes bitter pill (ET)

Is Arvind Kejriwal India’s Beppe Grillo? (Mint)

How to generate monthly inflows from tax free bonds? (OneMint)

The Devil’s Pygmies (Mediacrooks)

Spirit of Modi is detected everywhere (SwapanDasgupta)

Strategies that work but don’t work all the time (AlephBlog)

Top 10 Lessons that Sotheby’s can teach us about investing (BeyondProxy)

Gold Backed Money:Choice of a free society (HowardBuffett)

83 year old George Soros marries 42 year old Tamiko Bolton (BI)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:Sept 20,2013

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Evolution explains why you will hate your daughter’s choice of mate (PsychCentral)

How two mad men brought the world to the brink of nuclear war due to India (Open)

The Sequoia guide to pricing your product (Sequoia)

Buffett:Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history (Bloomberg)

Delhi’s political cemetery (Newslaundry)

Is Sharif making a deal with the devil? (Tehelka)

History:The blood Meridian (Economist)

Shanghai’s New Free Trade Zone (BusinessWeek)

Youngest kid,smartest kid? (NewYorker)

My daughter’s homework is killing me (Atlantic)

Film Critique:Bimal Roy’s Naukri (JaiArjun)

Sexting,shame and suicide (RollingStone)

Spoof:Nandan Nilekani Vs Anil Kumble (UnrealTimes)

The best, brightest and least productive (RobertShiller)

Car Review:Grand Hyundai i10 (TeamBHP)

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Linkfest:Sept 20,2013

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Tata, Singapore Airlines to raise new airline (WSJ)

Ramesh Jogani to raise 2000 Crores for realty projects (Mint)

Delhi Police are not with you if you are poor (NYT)

FIIs back with a bang (BS)

6 Things you need to know about Janet Yellen (Salon)

Investment noise and how to deal with it (RickFerri)

10 Simple Steps to a Billion $ Business (DailyReckoning)

Twitter announces IPO-the pricing game begins (AswathDamodaran)

8 Creativity lessons from a Pixar animator (Zenhabits)

Smart Beta and the pendulum of mispricing (RA)