Even as a new administration takes over in the US under the presidency of Trump and as most advanced economies look forward with plans to boost growth in 2025, the year has actually begun on a sombre note for many of them. That’s because their high fiscal deficits and high levels of debt are causing… Continue reading Soaring Borrowing Costs for Economies Everywhere
At the start of the new year as we wait for corporate earnings season to begin again, I thought it might be worth spending some time thinking about where the Indian economy is headed in 2025 and beyond. We tend to focus on headline GDP growth of the economy all the time, but rarely look… Continue reading Challenges For the Indian Economy in 2025
Since my blog is celebrating 25 years of the 21st century this year, and since the first 25 years of this century and millennium have been mostly about some astounding innovations – and disruptions – I thought it is only appropriate that my first blog post of 2025 be on innovations. While many of us… Continue reading Will 2025 Be the Year for Innovations?
It's the last day of 2024 and I thought I must share with all readers of my blog, the new brand identity I have created for Peripatetic Perch, even though I am not a designer or art director. As my blog goes into its seventh year in 2025, my new blog logo features a new… Continue reading New Year, New Blog Logo!
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While we can expect the trade and tariff wars to get a fresh impetus next year with President Trump in office, what are the chances that we can find a way to end the wars next year and bring peace to the world? From media reports it appears that Trump is himself all for ending… Continue reading What Are the Chances that We Can End the Wars Next Year?
The new Indian government took office six months ago, after a marathon parliament election in which the BJP-led NDA didn’t win a majority and had to form a coalition government. Since then, all of parliament proceedings have been stormed by the Adani controversy on which the opposition parties have been demanding a discussion. The Adani… Continue reading Little Work, Plenty of Hullabaloo
For the past few years since the Covid-19 pandemic, economic growth around the world has been subject to many constraints, including geopolitical ones, but most of all to cyclical and structural factors as well as to base effects. And every year of economic recovery since the pandemic, we have been speaking of it being the… Continue reading Navigating 2025 the Slowdown Year
It was reported at the start of this year that around half the world would be voting in elections around the world in 2024! While this is in itself an interesting fact, I think even more fascinating would be the long journey that democracy has made over the past many centuries and decades across many… Continue reading What Election Year 2024 Tells Us About the State of Democracy
The last time the world saw a tariff and trade war it was 2017, in Trump’s first term as President of the US when he took on the world’s second largest economy, China, in a tariff war. It ended with China too imposing retaliatory tariff increases on American imports and before we knew it, Europe… Continue reading The World Economy Bracing for Trump 2.0
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