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By Ajit Ranade |
This December 12 is the third death anniversary of Sharad Joshi, founder of the Shetkari Sanghatana, the farmers’…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This column appears on the morning a lot of us will be glued to our television screens, watching the results of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Fund managers and shareholders work with a different agenda governed more by higher profits and rising stock prices in…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The RBI Governor Urjit Patel has reiterated before a Parliamentary panel the central bank’s well-known position that…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The penultimate monetary policy for fiscal 2018-19 has maintained status quo on the policy repo rate at 6.5 per cent…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The fifth bi-monthly meeting of the MPC of the RBI in the current fiscal was billed to be a non-event since just about…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In his own strident way, never giving an inch and always straining to milk dry the argument for his side, Finance…
By Ajit Ranade |
The inflation reported for the month of October was 3.1 per cent, the lowest in the last one year. This was a big…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
When UPA-II under Dr. Singh lost to Narendra Modi’s BJP, Dr. Singh lost only his job but it was the Congress that lost…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The crucial Nov.19 board meeting of the RBI, which threatened at one point to be an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation,…
By Ajit Ranade |
The institutional autonomy and independence of the RBI is very important for its credibility and reputation. The latter…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
We see an unending bout of meaningless growling that sucks out all energy from public debate, reducing everyday…
By Ajit Ranade |
The midterm elections in the United States are a significant barometer of the voters’ perception on the President’s…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Over the last few years, there have been demands for the use of the RBI’s internal reserves for fiscal purposes, like…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This is the season of the RBI being looked at and studied threadbare as the central bank hits the headlines like never…