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Opinion: Budget 2023 - What To Expect From PM Modi

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Friday January 20, 2023

PM Modi's core economic agenda is to promote India as a rival manufacturing destination to China. He has sought to achieve this by incentivizing private factory expenditure and allocating more state resources to infrastructure, particularly rail and road. uncertain global demand and lackluster domestic consumption may keep a lid on private investment. The Indian gov...

Opinion: Digital Currency Needs To Feel Real. Here's The Reason Why

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Monday December 12, 2022

Some of the early CBDC experimenters like China, Sweden and South Korea have already moved away from physical cash to a large extent.

Opinion: India's Stocks Are Yet to Feel The Pinch Of Higher Rates

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Friday October 21, 2022

India's valuation gap over other emerging markets is an "eye-watering" 3 standard deviations higher than the historical average.

Opinion: India's Fast GDP Growth Doesn't Mean It's Ready for Take-off Yet

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg Opinion | Friday September 09, 2022

Over the past three years, in fact, GDP in India has grown just over 3% and less than4% since the last quarter before the pandemic.

Opinion: Police Tactics Are Chilling India's Crypto Winter Further

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Thursday August 11, 2022

If success has many fathers, then a crypto exchange in the eye of a money-laundering storm has become an orphan.

Opinion: Why RBI Put A Stop To "Buy Now, Pay Later"

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Tuesday June 28, 2022

It seems that India's central bank is no fan of "buy now, pay later." But then, the regulators irritation with this newish fad in consumer finance is wholly understandable.

Opinion: The Centuries-Old Financial System Better Than Reckless New DeFi

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Tuesday June 21, 2022

In the history of dangerous naivety, the decentralized finance mania of 2021 will hold its own against the 2007 boom in collateralized debt obligations.

Opinion: "Tulipmania Meets The Real Economy At WhatsApp Speed"

Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg | Monday May 30, 2022

With the cryptocurrency worlds luminaries having joined globetrotting elites at Davos and punters swept up in the market crash suffering sleepless nights its time for regulators to reflect on the real-world impact of the next boom-and-bust crypto cycle.

Opinion: This Crypto Winter Will Be Long, Doesn't Bother Believers Though

Jared Dillian, Bloomberg Opinion | Thursday May 19, 2022

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency assets are notoriously volatile, routinely suffering large drops of 50% or more.

Opinion: The World's Best Stablecoin Has Advice For Newbies

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Tuesday May 17, 2022

The celestial algorithm that keeps the moon in its orbit around the earth clearly works a lot better than the one that governed Luna and Terra.

Opinion: RBI Has Stopped Being In Denial, Now Needs To Hike Rates More

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Thursday May 05, 2022

In trying to squeeze one last drop of output from an empty barrel of monetary elixir, India's central bank made the serious mistake of not only ignoring the country's inflation buildup, but pretending that it didn't exist.

Opinion: Not Quite The "Fog A Mirror, Buy A House," But Crypto-Based Mortgages Are Crazy

Mark Gongloff, Bloomberg Opinion | Friday April 29, 2022

Bloomberg News reports the hot new thing in finance is the nouveau crypto riche putting up their expensive digital assets as collateral to buy expensive houses using a more-or-less traditional mortgage, but with no dead-tree dollars down.

Opinion: A Mega-Merger That Makes Sense For Both HDFC And HDFC Bank

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Wednesday April 06, 2022

After 45 years in business, the underwriter of homes for millions of Indians is moving in with its 28-year-old banker offspring.

Opinion: Amazon Learns It Cannot Beat Mukesh Ambani On His Home Turf

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Wednesday March 16, 2022

In the end, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani settled the dispute over who gets to own the assets of beleaguered Future Retail Ltd. not in an arbitration tribunal in Singapore, or in a courtroom in New Delhi, but in a shopping aisle.

Opinion: The Future of Crypto Is Boring - And Bright

Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion | Wednesday March 16, 2022

Crypto markets still have many puzzles, but they are beginning to reveal their secrets.

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