Will AI kill meaningless jobs?The stakes of that question have heightened as artificial intelligence hurtles forward, bringing with it the specter of job displacement. A...
08 Aug, 2024, 09.37 AM IST
Capitalism hasn’t failed — we’ve actually greatly benefited from freer marketSchumpeterians believe that government attempts to help, help and help again are the root cause of all that has gone wrong. They link this ...
02 Jul, 2024, 11.13 PM IST
21st century economics needs a better goal than ‘growth’: Kate RaworthKate Raworth, a Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, discusses the need to reinvent economics to address...
15 Feb, 2024, 09.56 PM IST
Four-day workweek may soon be a reality as some employers believe working-from-home is less productiveOlder workers didn't return to their jobs, the phenomenon was called the Great Resignation.
07 Apr, 2023, 06.05 PM IST
Opinion | Silicon Valley Bank's collapse makes everyone look terrible: The New York TimesVenture capitalists sparked a needless panic that annihilated an institution central to their own industry. The Federal Reserve ignored inf...
19 Mar, 2023, 11.52 AM IST
How Britain failed to stop the second wave: 50,000 Covid-19 deaths and risingAmong the world's wealthiest nations, Britain had the second-highest death toll from the coronavirus in the first wave of the pandemic, beh...
24 Nov, 2020, 03.41 PM IST
What’s on Omnivore Managing Partner‘s plate: Bajra roti to keep him energised, almonds and walnuts for a sharp mindMark Kahn's plate has a lot of greens in the form of spinach, okra and ivy gourd.
20 Nov, 2020, 10.11 AM IST
Economic upheavals change rules of equity investing: Making profit will now take longer than beforeThe equity markets move in cycles, and often, it takes five to seven years to go through a full cycle of a sharp rise, decline and stagnati...
03 Aug, 2020, 06.30 AM IST
Full text of Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholdersWarren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday.
23 Feb, 2020, 12.54 PM IST
Budget-making: You can do it without a degree in economicsOf the 30 finance ministers India has had so far, only six studied economics or commerce.
25 Jan, 2019, 06.42 AM IST
World Bank's chief economist Romer says macroeconomics in troubleRomer agrees that economic models don't dictate to the top Fed policy makers; but he thinks they still wield undue influence, especially am...
19 Nov, 2016, 11.52 AM IST
‘Time Machine’ sounds more real than negative rates: Nothing is stable in times of freakonomicsI would admit without hesitation that for many of us, we owe our existence in financial services industry to QE in last 7-8 years, says Pan...
02 Jul, 2016, 09.38 AM IST
18 books billionaire Warren Buffett thinks everyone should readWhen Warren Buffett started his investing career, he would read 600, 750, or 1,000 pages a day. Even now, he spends about 80% of his day re...
01 Nov, 2015, 04.24 PM IST
In India there are more financial advisers than peoplePerhaps the best advice for giving advice is not assuming a way of life but facilitating one by listening to the one telling you who they a...
16 Oct, 2014, 06.21 AM IST
- CPI(M) attacks Cong for defending govt's 'neo-liberal' reforms
CPI(M) today attacked Congress for defending the UPA government's 'neo-liberal' reform measures including FDI in retail, saying the speeche...
05 Nov, 2012, 05.59 PM IST
Can you spare a dividend cheque?At less than 2%, the payout by Sensex stocks is more or less unchanged from five years ago. Corporate India can do better.
06 Feb, 2009, 12.34 AM IST
- Management guru? Think Indian now
More often than not, the 'man' in management thought now has Indian roots.
27 Aug, 2006, 10.09 AM IST