The world’s second largest economy has mostly been in the news for its slowing domestic consumption and for the overcapacity it has generated in high-tech industries which still keeps powering the economy through exports. While both these are true, it is perhaps time to explore the Chinese economy a little more in detail for it’s… Continue reading What We Can Learn from China’s Two Speed Economy
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The elusive peace plan on the Iran war that Trump says is only days away is still several days away. 60 days or two months away to be precise, if the two sides sign off on the so-called memorandum of understanding today in Geneva. The whole sordid thing reeks of unprofessional PR agency idiot bosses’… Continue reading Chill, It’s Still Only Talks About Talks
The Iran war is into its fourth month, when it was supposed to end in 4-6 weeks according to President Trump. And we are all aware of the dangers this prolonged conflict is posing to our economy here in India as well as around the world. India in particular is affected through the external sector,… Continue reading India Must Untie the Economic Knots It Has Tied Itself Up In
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As we go into the summer of 2026, there is no denying the fact that it is going to be a season of impasse, from which there is no easy way out. World leaders have got us into this dreadful situation but cannot find a way to extricate themselves and the world out of the… Continue reading Season of Roadblocks and Stalemate
You might wonder what would an advertising professional – a writer at that – know or have to do with the 4Ps of marketing propounded by Philip Kotler decades ago. It’s true, I am not a marketing professional, but having read and studied the 4Ps of marketing as part of my post-graduate one-year course in… Continue reading The Relevance of Marketing’s 4 Ps in the Digital Age
When I last wrote about the European economy six months ago, I had said that the EU must look beyond trade for economic growth and that there is ample room to increase domestic consumption as well as investment across EU member countries. I had also written about how many of the countries in the continent… Continue reading Geo-economic Challenges That Europe Must Address Soon
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If at the start of 2025 and now in 2026, we thought that Trump’s tariffs would adversely impact the US economy and the rest of the world, we now also have the impact of Trump’s war in Iran to contend with. The latter could, in fact, take a much bigger toll on the global economy… Continue reading The Global Economy Faces a Double-Whammy in 2026
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