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Great reads for the weekend:

India’s economy: Losing its magic (Economist)

A devastating critique of the government-The usual idiots (Mint)

What goes up must come down (GMO)

Warren Buffett’s 50 Billion $ decision (InvestingNotebook)

Student Loans for kindergarten?( Forbes)

IIT Coaching in Kota – Feel sorry for today’s kids (Caravan)

Raging (Hazing) in Ivy League colleges-a true shocker (Rolling Stone)

Found this strangely funny-Male model thrashed and swindled by women (Mumbai Mirror)

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Hot Links: March 30, 2012

Your morning financial links expertly curated:

Foreigners find India a risky business (WSJ)

HPCL’s Bhatinda refinery becomes fully operational (BusinessLine)

Suzlon Energy: The net tightens (Mint)

SEBI Watch:Insider Trading of Shri J.E. Talaulicar (SEBI)

Havard more selective than Yale (Bloomberg)

Bashing up Warren Buffett (Daily Reckoning)

What Dan Loeb learned as an investor (Market Folly)

Wtf: Urine soaked eggs sell like hot cakes in China (Mumbai Mirror)

 

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Hot Links: March 29,2012

Some stuff that I am reading this morning:

Bangalore is costlier than Mumbai to live in (ET)

SEBI Watch: Did political pressure play a role in letting off the Tayals? (Firstpost)

India to be the largest economy by 2050 (Financial Express)

Mallya selling stake in United Breweries to Heineken? (Mint)

How to win friends and influence people-a lesson from Rajiv Bajaj (Business Standard)

What do value investors do in turbulent markets? (Advisor One)

Bill Gross on delivering in a delevering world (Pimco)

Gold bumps its head (Bespoke)

Have gold prices peaked? (Big Picture)

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Hot Links: March 28, 2012

Some stuff I am reading this morning:

L&T Finance buys Fidelity’s mutual fund business in India (ET)

Why market shakes every time the taxman shouts GAAR (Moneycontrol)

FII flows a record so far in 2012 (Mint)

A case for investing in MT Educare ( BusinessLine )

A case for not investing in MT Educare (FirstChoiceIPO)

Found this quite funny-Madrid prostitutes declare war on bankers (RT)

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Hot Links: March 27, 2012

Some stuff I am reading this morning:

S&P 500 hits highest level since May 2008 (Bloomberg)

Indian Bulls run headlong into politics (FT)

Tax worries make FIIs sell (Financial Express)

Is the Govt any better than Satyam’s Raju ?(First Post)

Good News for sugar stocks-Additional 10L Tonnes of sugar exports allowed (Business Line)

Neither can you afford a home in Mumbai nor can you take it on rent (Sucheta Dalal)

Analyst research is a big joke (FT Alphaville)