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Opinion: Where PM Modi Could Be Just As Wrong As Nehru

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday April 05, 2021

A critical component of the myth-making around Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to minimize the contribution of the country's foundational figures.

Opinion: RBI Is Having A Tough Time With Government Bonds

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Wednesday March 24, 2021

Even though the rupee is the best emerging-market currency so far this year, 6% isn't adequate risk compensation for 10-year notes.

Opinion: How Amazon Is Fighting Door-To-Door To Beat Mukesh Ambani

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday March 22, 2021

The world's largest retailer is permeating the complex tapestry of the only billion-people-plus market open to it. And it's doing so by tweaking its business models to suit local preferences, practices, quirks - and Covid-19 disruptions.

Opinion: What's Government's Beef With Bitcoin, Really?

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday March 16, 2021

The uncertainty is throwing young blockchain firms and programmers into a paroxysm of anxiety: Should they leave or stay? If they hang back, should they do something else with their lives?

Opinion: Hungry Fund Managers Angry With India, Want SEBI To Make A Fix

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Monday March 15, 2021

Global investors are urging the Securities and Exchange Board of India to fix the upstairs market.

Opinion: Read India's Tea Leaves In Bonds, Not Stocks

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Wednesday March 10, 2021

Only two-fifths of the sovereign notes put up for sale have been bought by investors. The rest of the auctions were partially cancelled or devolved on primary dealers.

Opinion: Away From Bezos Vs Ambani, A Startup Is Changing Indian Retail

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday March 02, 2021

A bruising battle for supremacy between two of the world's richest men is hogging the limelight, but the silent changes in India's retail landscape deserve equal attention.

Opinion: Modi's Plan To Make A Singapore In Gujarat Falls Flat

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday February 22, 2021

When Singapore set up an international financial hub in the late 1960s, the city-state was thinking both fast and slow - seizing an immediate opportunity, and opening a path to long-term economic development.

Opinion: An RBI Move That Could Lead To Digital Currency In India

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Wednesday February 10, 2021

The idea of a central bank digital currency, which will reside on smartphones but as a direct claim on the state (rather than a bank) is gaining ground everywhere

Opinion: Can Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget Deliver V-Shaped Recovery

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Tuesday February 02, 2021

The equity market is happy for four main reasons. One, there was no major new tax - or an increase in tax rates - to meet the spending goal.

Opinion: Budget Will Be Tougher Than Government's Usual Fiscal Trapeze

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Friday January 29, 2021

India's federal budget Monday will be a much tougher balancing act than New Delhi's regular annual fiscal trapeze. For one thing, the pandemic has upset business-as-usual calculations of how much to spend, on what, and how to finance it. For another, an impatience to make up for lost time has to be weighed against a shrinking of policy space in emerging markets: A rep...

Opinion: The Retro Tax Was Bad, India. Don't Make It Worse

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Thursday January 28, 2021

Back when global investors still believed Prime Minister Narendra Modi would keep his promise to end the previous regime's "tax terror," his newly elected government made a costly error. In March 2015, someone in India's labyrinthine bureaucracy decided to send a revenue demand to U.K.'s Cairn Energy Plc - ruining Chief Executive Officer Simon Thomson's birthday.

Opinion: Secrecy Around Templeton's India Closure Is Indefensible

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