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India’s rupee looking good on the markets…

March 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Chuck Butler, columnist at The Daily Reckoning had some good things to say about the rupee. There was big news, overnight, about India’s currency, the rupee. Now, a lot of you know that we’ve shied away from the rupee because of its ‘non-deliverable’ status. Well, that could all change in the future, if the stories [...]

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Tags: economics · finance · india · news

Cafe Salemba

March 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Interesting blog by a bunch of (I guess) econ students of which at least one is from Harvard. I like it. Here’s the description: We serve food for thoughts: from Marshallian Pie to Equilibrium Croissant to Keynes Liberated. On weekends, we have life music by Monetary Swing and Separating Hyperplane. Got to be an econ [...]

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Tags: economics · miscellany

The Budget

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Chiddy spoke on the budget earlier today. It looks promising. There’s talk about reducing the fiscal deficit, plumping up the infrastructure and significantly increased spending on education and health for the poor (up by 31.5% and 22%, respectively, from last year). The basic response has been positive, but the BBC’s Economic Analyst Paranjoy Guha Thakurta [...]

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