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The debate on valuation of Chinese Yuan

Global economics is a dynamic subject, unfortunately without any reference. The only reference one has is the market. The reference system of something tangible was closed down with the closing of the Bretton Woods system when the gold window was ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  Bank of Japan,  Barack Obama

Relevance of the question that Jagland asked in awarding Nobel to Obama

Well, I understand I have been wasting my time. Almost everyone acknowledged that the decision by the Nobel Committee to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama is going to be controvercial. Why unnecessarily add on to the controversy? I ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Twitter Inc,  George W. Bush,  Wikipedia,  Alfred Nobel

India – a failed state and South Asia – a failed region?

South Asia is in a sorrow state – much of its own making. India is in a sorrow state – as yesterday (8th October, 2009)  Naxals killed 17 policemen in Maharashtra and in Kabul, another attempt to blast Indian embassy resulted in similar number of ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Raj Thackeray,  Barack Obama,  Naxalites,  Mahatma Gandhi

Saluting China

That, in a nutshell, should be the message the world should send to China as it prepares for its 60th Anniversary of the party, Communism and the founding of the country as it is known today. The people of China, its policy-makers and the Communist ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  30 Sep 2009

Lehman was the symptom of a bigger crisis that many forecast right

A lot of media and academic attention has been engaged in the post-mortem of the financial crisis that took almost everyone (as perceived and presented by media) by surprise last year. The symbolic equivalence of that event is now entangled with (the ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  Nouriel Roubini

Lehman, Recession, Black Swan and China

Are we back to business as usual again as recession comes to an end with green shoots growing and reaching productive stage with every passing day? Was the collapse of capitalism, free-markets as it’s been mostly known by most so long is purely an ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  Stephen Roach

The end! - of Wall Street in October 2008.

Indian markets, like many others in the world, slumped by more than 10%. Germany as of now is down by nearly 10% and Dow Futures by more than 6% - upto its daily limit. I finally said - enough! It’s worse than Las Vegas. Whatever explanation one can ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  24 Oct 2008

I still don’t understand global financial markets

Back in February 2007, I wrote an article in BNN. It was titled:   And after lots of reading, writing and analysis; let me confess that I still don’t understand global financial markets.  I mentioned about skeletons in the Feb. 2007 article. And since ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  23 Oct 2008

Related Topics: OPEC

SEBI in India Underwrites FII short-sellers

There had been a lot of debate in the US and amidst investors whether SEC Chairman Christopher Cox was sleeping in the wheel. That could be a possibility, however once or twice he showed that he could wake-up and take some decisions which favored ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  20 Oct 2008

Related Topics: Christopher Cox

Wall Street Diary, October 2008

The story of the stupid king and its stupid minister It’s been a horrific week. October 6th to 10th. And still there’s no end as markets showed its ugly teeth on 15th - yesterday. The month is half-way through. I tried my best to protect the small ...

From RANJIT GOSWAMI, Blogger News,  16 Oct 2008

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Tata Steel,  U.S. Senate,  Paul Krugman,  World Bank

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