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Bond investors therefore should favor quality and “clean dirty shirt” sovereigns (U.S., Mexico and Brazil), for example, as well as emphasize intermediate maturities that gradually shorten over the next few years. Equity investors should likewise favor stable cash flow global companies and ones exposed to high growth markets. Investors in general, however, will be hard pressed to repeat the rather right-tailed performance of the past 30 years, a whale rather than plankton-dominated era based on excessive credit expansion. Deleveraging economies and financial markets present a different and lower returning kettle of fish than did recent credit-dominated decades.-wrote Bill Gross in his letter to investors

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Question:I have heard that DLF and Unitech belong to Gandhis. Is that true ?

Answer by Dr.Subramaniam Swamy:Vadra has a big stake

“Its a wake-up call, a shock.But it could be predicted considering that there is no positive news or action from the government.It reminds me of the crisis India faced in 1990-91.It (government) needs to change its thinking that India will grow at 6-7%, whatever happens. That is no longer true. Retrograde amendments, delay in policy making, telecom spectrum pricing—there is virtually something of concern across every sector causing negative perception. It’s time for reform.”–said Harish Mariwala, Chairman of Marico Ltd reacting to the poor GDP numbers

“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.So, you know what? As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time.”-said IMF’s Christine Lagarde  in an interview