All posts by Anisha

The King’s Speech: the ultimate feel-good film
February 12, 2011, 7 Comments

Ultimately, The King’s Speech is a feel-good bromance between Bertie and Lionel and it is practically impossible to no ...

Predicting the next crisis: what don’t we know we don’t know?
January 20, 2011, 2 Comments

Just as “shadow banking” evokes an aura of mystery and mirage, fat tails call to mind squat, repulsive geckos crouch ...

The IPL Auction: A response
January 12, 2011, 11 Comments

Except, there is, of course, one other source of value to a sports club: a loyal fan-base. Europe and even America has i ...

Carry on, Traders! The carry trade and capital controls
January 10, 2011, 2 Comments

Earlier this year, the drumbeats of war sounded again as Chile – the ultimate free market poster child – declared th ...

Cloak and Dagger: the shadow banking system
January 6, 2011, 23 Comments

The financial crisis of 2007-09 introduced a vast number of new concepts and terms to the global lexicon but the sexiest ...

Currency shoot-out
October 15, 2010, 7 Comments

The big questions will be these: will China let the renminbi rise and will the US ease up on quantitative easing? My opi ...

Gandhi and the Swadeshi Project
October 1, 2010, 41 Comments

During the freedom struggle, plenty of lip service had been paid to his ideals of sarvodaya, swaraj and swadeshi. Soon a ...

Racing against time: the RBI fights inflation
September 16, 2010, 7 Comments

Playing Superman isn’t easy and the RBI needs a lot more help than it has been getting from the government. The RBI ha ...

Fuzzy math? Puzzling out the GDP numbers
September 1, 2010, 4 Comments

Gross domestic product numbers that look so good and domestic demand numbers that look so bad is a bit like Michael Beva ...

Feel it! Is it here?
August 17, 2010, 1 Comment

The whole business of estimating the economic impact of mega-events is inelegant, at best, and totally deceptive, at wor ...