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Financially MAD – Prof.Jacob Chandy

20 May,2022. Imagine you went to your friendly neighbourhood bank one day and asked to withdraw your savings and the bank manager said, β€œSavings? What Savings?” and simply refused to honour a bank’s commitment to provide you with your savings on demand. Apart from being justifiably pissed off with your banker you would also inform […]

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The National International Dollar – Prof. Jacob Chandy

May 05, 2022. Way back, in 1944, at what is known as the Bretton Woods Conference, representatives of the nations of the world took the curious decision to designate the US dollar, which is actually a national currency, as the international currency. The rest, as they say, is history. In other words, the nations of […]

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Sardine Tank – Prof. Jacob Chandy

May 04, 2022. Oceanic Finance The ubiquity of nautical terminology in the financial lexicon is quite fascinating when you actually think about it. Perhaps it has something to do with the ancient nexus between high finance and maritime trade? Think the Dutch East India Company – the first to be listed on the Amsterdam Stock […]

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The GST Maze – Prof. Jacob Chandy

Jan 11, 2022. It is almost universally acknowledged both within the country and outside, that the Indian bureaucracy and government are among the most inefficient in the world and that they are one of the most important reasons why it is so difficult to do business in India. To be fair, this dubious image has […]

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