Are emerging markets headed for a crisis?One problem is that investors have piled into familiar carry trades, either directly or via funds.
26 Aug, 2018, 02.27 PM IST
The world's policymakers have run out of weaponsThe truth is that governments and central banks have very few weapons left -- and have probably lost any chance they once had of averting a...
27 Oct, 2016, 12.50 PM IST
China's 35-year addiction to cheap credit continuesThe recovery has been driven by a significant expansion in credit. Post crisis, new lending by Chinese banks has been around 30% or more of...
26 Apr, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
German constitutional court may determine euro’s fateWith the austerity plan to cut deficits and debt and banking union, the OMT has underpinned the relative stability of European financial ma...
01 Mar, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
The European crisis: Can Germany bear the burden?The festering european debt crisis, which will resurface later, is a key challenge for German chancellor Angela Merkel’s new government.
06 Feb, 2014, 05.00 AM IST
For true recovery, markets must be in tandem with economic activityThere is a growing gap between markets & economic activity, between the 1% who gain in the current scenario & the 99% whose fortunes have d...
15 Jan, 2014, 02.36 AM IST
Data suggest Germany's financial strength may be grossly overstatedIn 2012, Germany ran a trade deficit of euro 27 bn with Russia, Libya and Norway, for energy imports, and also with Japan(euro4.7 bn), and ...
01 Jan, 2014, 05.14 AM IST
Eurozone crisis: Europe’s imperceptible recovery is worrisomeEuropean leaders are interpreting stabilisation of economic activity and stable borrowing costs as evidence that the debt crisis is over.
16 Nov, 2013, 03.18 AM IST
Innovation, productivity, new markets essential for sustainable growthWithout improvements in agricultural technology, it will be difficult to feed a population approaching 10 billion.
07 Sep, 2013, 04.02 AM IST
Negotiating treacherous financial markets requires more semantics than economicsBernanke also has to manage constituencies within the Fed and foreign nations concerned about the impact of US policies on their economies.
04 Jul, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Developed countries going for currency manipulation in one form or the otherCurrently, all nations want to maximise their share of limited economic growth and shift the burden of financial adjustment onto others.
08 May, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
European debt crisis is not over, says Satyajit DasGreece, Ireland or Portugal may need additional funding to meet maturing debt and also to finance budget deficits as their economies remain...
21 Jan, 2013, 06.40 AM IST
Global economy seeks the advice of the same faith healers who guided it into today’s crisisEconomy's faith healers prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in economic systems of whi...
24 Jul, 2012, 08.33 AM IST
China will write off $3 trillion, says Satyajit Das, a derivatives specialistIn Eurozone crisis, debtors have sinned, but creditors are hardly without sin, says Satyajit Das
19 Oct, 2011, 10.11 AM IST
- Dollar may be the way to go in currency play
Many doubts have been raised on whether dollar will continue to be the premier international currency. But the US currency seems to be doin...
03 Dec, 2010, 06.24 AM IST
- India Inc sitting on MTM loss worth billions of dollars
The practice of getting collaterals could help banks lower the risk on their derivatives books and prompt RBI to grant capital relief. Inde...
20 Apr, 2009, 10.09 AM IST
'There are no business ethics, only naked greed’Satyajit Das, author of Traders, Guns and Money, has spent more than 31 years teaching and practising in the exotic financial derivatives i...
18 Apr, 2008, 05.11 AM IST