With large parts of the world going to elections this year, it’s worth looking at some of the political shifts that could signal changes in economic policy as well. India has just concluded a mammoth 7-phase election and I have written about its implications for the Indian economy in my previous blog post. Parliamentary elections… Continue reading What EU and UK Elections Could Mean for Their Economies
Category: United States
What Global Inc Is Telling Us About the Economy
Now that the first quarter of the calendar year 2024 has ended, it’s worthwhile trying to gauge the state of the global economic recovery from what the corporate earnings seem to be indicating so far. Of course, the March quarter happens to be the last quarter of our fiscal year in India, and we are… Continue reading What Global Inc Is Telling Us About the Economy
Protected: Reading In a Fragmented World
Can We Change the Direction of The Coming Wave?
Just finished reading an absorbing book on AI by one of its leading practitioners, and I was hoping it wouldn’t be one of those rapturous, ra-ra kind of books on the subject. Thankfully, The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, founder of DeepMind which Google acquired, and Inflection AI, isn’t one of those kinds of books;… Continue reading Can We Change the Direction of The Coming Wave?
Hounding Gazans Out of Gaza
Deciding what to write about in this month’s Owleye column on my blog, I had the general elections in India and the Israel-Gaza war as choices. Not having written about the Middle-East conflict for a few months, and with the war having taken a turn for the worse, the final decision was an easy one.… Continue reading Hounding Gazans Out of Gaza
The Global Economy According to The IMF and The World Bank
In my previous blog post I wrote about how changes in politics and geopolitics the world over can impact the global economy this year and the next few years at least. Now that the Annual Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank have concluded, I thought I’d write about how they see the world… Continue reading The Global Economy According to The IMF and The World Bank
Where Geopolitics Can Take the Global Economy
As India prepares to go to the polls tomorrow in the largest democratic exercise in the world, it might be time to also think of elections that have already taken place this year and the others yet to come. I am looking at it from the point of view of the larger political shifts that… Continue reading Where Geopolitics Can Take the Global Economy
Pernod Ricard and Seagram: Reconsidering the Brand Relationship
Sometime during the Covid-19 pandemic – not a great time for wining and dining, or travel and socialising – I had put my thoughts down on a corporate brand strategy for Pernod Ricard, the world’s No. 2 wines and spirits company. I wrote and shared this on my blog along with corporate campaigns for the… Continue reading Pernod Ricard and Seagram: Reconsidering the Brand Relationship
Protected: Reading For an Uneasy Spring
Amid War and Elections, What About Europe’s Economy?
It’s been a long time since I wrote about the European economy, although I do mention it whenever I write about the global economy. The reason I think it needs a dedicated piece this time is because I think that the continent is too caught up in too many things at the moment and the… Continue reading Amid War and Elections, What About Europe’s Economy?










