Interview on Trade Relationship between Bangladesh & India with Pratim Ranjan Bose, Chief of Bureau of The Hindu Business Line, Kolkata. Ezilarsan PKP: How Bangladesh and India can combine their synergies in the textile so we...
It is paradoxical that it is in a country like India that economists are so serioulsy taken the climate change subject head-on. Particularly in the equivalent of the Report on the Nation’s Accounts. The Economic...
It is 53 years since Edna O’Brien published her harrowing novel ‘August is a Wicked Month’ and I have borrowed the title several times over the years. As this month claims more and more casualties...
US Department of Energy announced yesterday offered for delivery between October 1 and November 30, 11 mln barrels of sour crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves. The move has nothing to do with operationalizing...
I think most people would agree that the Brexit process has not gone well so far. However, blaming Mrs May and her hapless ministers is perhaps too simple an explanation. After 45 years of integration...
The US policy mix gets a privileged place in our understanding of what is the dollar. Tighter monetary policy and looser fiscal policy could be the closest thing to an elixir for currencies. It is...
The Trump Administration argues that other countries have been taking unfair advantage of the US on trade for years, and what many are calling a trade war is really only the US finally saying enough....
The Fed’s QE Unwind – “balance sheet normalization,” as it calls this – is accelerating toward cruising speed. The first 12 months of the QE unwind, which started in October 2017, are the ramp-up period...
The Japanese yen has been sold following the adjustments to policy and outlook by the BOJ that will allow the unconventional policies continue for an “extended period of time.” Cross rate pressure and month-end demand...
Savarna can mean an astrologer, or a son of a Brahmin man and a Kshatriya mother, or of the same colour, appearance, caste or tribe. That was in ancient Sanskrit; more recently it has come...
Silvio Berlusconi was famously derided for claiming in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis that all was well in Italy as the restaurants were as full and the beaches as crowded as usual. Subjective...
The global capital markets are trying to stabilize. US equities recovered from early losses yesterday but this was not enough to stop Asian equities from extending recent losses. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slipped 0.2% for...
