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India's political economy and more, with special emphasis on emerging ethical politics

Friday, September 30, 2011

Readable - 01/10/11


Finance/Economics:

Multi-trillion plan for the Eurozone? - The Telegraph

Rumored Eurozone plan explained - Zero Hedge

Leveraging the EFSF attractive, but risky - Financial Times

Super-charged Eurozone fund won't solve crisis - Satyajit Das/Financial Times (may need subscription to view)

Eurozone deal denials - Macro Business

Eurozone rescue options sinking fast - Anil Kashyap/Bloomberg

Is Germany preparing an exit from the Euro? - Dr. Pippa Malmgren

No miracles in Greek tragedies - Jeff Randall/The Telegraph

Video - Financial reporting fail: Gold v/s Dollar - Zero Hedge

The video that went viral - Trader says "I dream of another recession" - Youtube

Debt crunch threatens China and other emerging markets - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard/The Telegraph

China Loan-Shark market crashes - Mish

India's growth problems - Firstpost

India's budget fudging - Firstpost

The RBI's Rupee conundrum - Firstpost

Why the RBI will not mess with the Rupee - Ajay Shah/Firstpost


Political/Social:

With leaders asleep at the wheel, India's story flounders - Firstpost

"Am I a virus?" asks UID's Nilekani - Firstpost

Gujarat's hell holes - Outlook India

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Readable - 24/09/11


Finance/Economics:

How the markets interpreted the Fed's Twist negatively - Naked Capitalism

Can China rescue Italy? - Patrick Chovanec

Strong countries, not Greece, should ditch Euro - Ramesh Ponnuru

Can China escape as world's debt crisis reaches ACT III? - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Jim Chanos on China's contingent liabilities - Naked Capitalism

The Lehman moment - Zerohedge

Video - Meltdown: Part 1 of 4 of Al-Jazeera's investigation of the 2008 financial crisis - Al-Jazeera

There's a big hole in the tax bucket - and Pranab can't fix it - Firstpost

RBI wary of selling dollars - Firstpost

Residential property prices in Mumbai may correct by 33% - Moneylife

Indian real estate faces cash crisis - India Housing Bubble

Chicago pension fraud - Mish


Political/Social:

Glimpses of the next great famine - Nicholas Kristof

UPA sinking - Firstpost

Back to garibi-hatao days? - Firstpost

The problem is Rahul-flation - Firstpost

India Inc doesn't buy the new Land Bill - Firstpost

The NYT on Aadhar - New York Times

Does being ugly make you poor? - The Telegraph

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Readable - 17/09/11


Finance/Economics:

A slow motion bank run in Europe - Bloomberg

Euro Bonds no cure for Europe - Kotz, Krahnen and Leuz

How to save the Euro - The Economist

Eurozone Breakup Logistics - Mish

"No alternative but Greece expulsion" - Credit Writedowns

Only Drachmaization can save Greece and Euro - Martin Hutchison

Europe's impossible choice: The Greek exit paradox - CNBC

Germany and Greece flirt with mutually assured destruction - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

European bank blowups hidden with shell games - Jonathan Weil

Geithner irks Europeans - Reuters

Is inflation the answer? - Raghuram Rajan

China to 'liquidate' US treasuries, not Dollars - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard



Political/Social:

The imperial delusions of the US - Robert Jansen

Nato and Taliban fight it out on Twitter - Outlook India

The ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster - Naked Capitalism

The potentially disastrous Food Security Bill - Firstpost

India's fiscal woes - Firstpost

Why does India have 77 Union ministers? - Rajeev Mantri and Harsh Gupta

Is Narendra Modi's tryst with the law starting or ending? - Tehelka

The rebranding of Narendra Modi - Firstpost

Aadhar: a lowdown of the massive project - Wired

Video of Nandan Nilekani's speech about India's future (from 2009, but very good, and still very relevant) - TED

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Readable - 10/09/11


Finance/Economics:

Welcome to Phase 2 of the Eurozone crisis - Richard Baldwin

Few options left to save the Eurozone - Credit Writedowns

High noon approaching for Greece? - Edward Hugh

A spectacular stimulus failure - Mish

Extreme excesses in China - Patrick Chovanec

India is going in the wrong direction - Jim Walker

Workers play cards at idle Indian factories - Bloomberg

You can't make this stuff up - Chris Mayer


Political/Social:

Meet Afzal Guru - Vinod K. Jose (Warning - controversial) (Also see this - controversial again)

Art of peace - Outlook India

Wikileaks: When Maywati needs sandals, private jet fies to Mumbai - Firstpost

Direct democracy pitfalls - First post

More realistic solutions against corruption - Outlook India
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