Will it be a performance enhancing anabolic or fan disappointment –  a blog post by Prof. T.N. Swaminathan, Great Lakes Institute of Management Most times in the past your children or your employee  calling over telephone  to say they are stuck or in an emergency,  had operated largely in the “dark,” with their location, position,  and functional  state  unknown  or  even  unknowable. Thanks to digitization, caller ID facility…

In the last few months, the data released by the US Federal Reserve is creating cognitive dissonance in the minds of fed watchers. Will the US Fed Reserve use the following data which are contradictory in nature which could lead to either action or no action in the interest front?   First is the data…

The US Presidential election is to take place on November 8, 2016. The candidates namely Donald Trump and Mrs. Clinton are about to debate several times in September and October 2016 explaining to its citizens as to what they plan to deliver if they are elected to the office. A few days back, with Gallup…

One often wondered that if the government were to spend say 100 dollars, that too borrowed money how much of economic output will increase after all secondary effects are taken into account. This is called the multiplier theory and is often attributed to the famous economist John Maynard Keynes who lived and died in the…

As a student of Macro-economics, one needs to have a clear understanding of how the US Federal Reserve functions. Their policies affect the entire financial world drastically. Now let us look at how they function.   When the Federal Reserve wants to decrease the money supply they sell securities to the primary dealers. The securities…

After almost a decade, the Indian parliament passed a low introducing GST to be applied across India on a uniform basis for all goods and services traded. The parliament has yet to resolve as to whether one GST rate will apply or multiple rates depending on national objectives and priorities. Further it is believed that…

The news came that the US employers hired more workers than expected for the second straight month thus providing the necessary ammunition to the Fed Chairman Janet Yellen to consider pushing up the Fed funds rate by 25 basis points in the next open market committee meeting in the month of September. This is a…

A month has passed since the Brexit referendum results were announced. Britain has categorically told the Euro union that it wants to exit and as majority of its citizens are convinced that they can make it on their own. When the final outcome was announced both the FTSE and the value of pound plunged in…

The Central Government of India has just announced that the top 100 borrowers in India owe nearly 14 Lakh Crore Rupees to the Public Sector Banks (PSB). A significant portion of the lendable funds of PSB are locked up in the hands of few high networth borrowers. According to the Minister of State Mr. Santosh…

The price of gold today is at $ 1363.50 (4 August, 2016). It had seen big fluctuations before and the main reason for its price volatility is the US monetary policy. The price of gold has been climbing up steadily in the last couple of years because the US interest rate has been stuck at…