Unfortunately, Barack Obama remains a black candidate!

The 2008 Democratic Caucuses in Iowa, held on January 3, 2008, put US Senator Barack Obama on the national stage. He not only won the contest but never looked back again. He managed to push his over-confident but formidable rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the race by June 3, 2008. How did Obama [...]

500 Indian Billionaires by 2020?

There are more than 3 million entrepreneurs in India who want to become dollar billionaires in the foreseeable future. All 3 million might not become dollar billionaires but they would certainly become multi-millionaires at some point in future. Why is it so important for Indians to aspire to become filthy-rich? Indians have always believed that [...]

Nationalization of the willing?

If Russia or Venezuela took over a private sector company, it was called nationalization. Now that the entire financial sector is being nationalized in America, it is called a rescue effort. I call it a double-speak! We should have seen this coming a long time back. Americans have been living beyond their means for the [...]

What is likely to happen in FATA?

What ROME is to the Christians, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan is to the terrorists. It has become the high-seat of Taliban and Al-Qaida orthodoxy. “America will not win the war in Afghanistan by taking it across the border into Pakistan’s tribal areas” – The Economist, September 18, 2008. You can bet your [...]

Anglo-American egos are falling, not BRICs…

Thank you ‘The Economist’, you always manage to rattle my cage! This time with “Beware falling BRICs”, catchy head-line but with dubious credentials. It appears to be more of a wishful thinking rather than based on any facts. It is true that the stock markets in the emerging economies have shown little too much of [...]

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