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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: Google And Facebook Lose A Battle To Win The War

David Fickling, Bloomberg | Thursday February 18, 2021

When prospectors made what was the biggest oil discovery in history at Texas' Spindletop well in 1901, the world's premier oil monopolist was absent from the scene. Standard Oil Co., a decade away from being split up in an antitrust suit, was content to sit back and let smaller local rivals establish themselves.

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: New CEO Andy Jassy's Scary "Chop" Meetings And What Goes On

Sarah Green Carmichael, Bloomberg | Monday February 08, 2021

Andy Jassy, Amazon's incoming CEO, has a conference room nicknamed the Chop. As Business Insider puts it in a profile of Jassy, "The Chop is where ideas, and sometimes employees, go to get chopped down to size."

Opinion: India Can't Afford To Binge On Debt

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Thursday February 04, 2021

India's economy has suffered more than most from the pandemic and so have its people. The country has lost more than a year's worth of growth and perhaps a decade's progress in its efforts to reduce poverty. The economic contraction - the first in India since the 1970s - has put pressure on its government like so many others to respond.

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...

Blog: Death With Dignity. How I Helped My Dad Die

Esmé E Deprez, Bloomberg | Thursday January 28, 2021

I was finishing up breakfast in New York when my dad sent me a text message. He was ready to die, and he needed me to help.

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: PM Modi Should Stand Firm On Farm Laws

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday January 26, 2021

India's agitating farmers show no signs of fading away. Angry cultivators have been camped on the doorstep of Delhi for weeks through north India's bitingly cold winter. They have shown a talent for staying in the headlines as well, with attention-grabbing stunts such as staging a tractor convoy to rival India's official Republic Day parade.

Opinion: Why Jack Ma Is Not China's Top Billionaire

Shuli Ren and Howard Chua-Eoan, Bloomberg | Monday January 25, 2021

One day you're in, the other day you're out. China's billionaire rankings seem as stable as hydrogen. In 2017, Hui Ka Yan, founder of real estate developer China Evergrande Group, was the nation's richest man.

Opinion: Secrecy Around Templeton's India Closure Is Indefensible

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Friday January 22, 2021

For years now, faith in the integrity of India's markets has hemorrhaged, with everyone from rating firms to auditors, fund managers and trustees putting their own commercial interests above - and often against - those of the investing public.

Opinion: Private Sector Should Be An Ally In India's Big Vaccine Push

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday January 05, 2021

The Indian state faces one of the world's most formidable challenges: rolling out a Covid-19 vaccination program for 1.3 billion people. To succeed, many things have to go right in a country that usually gets a lot wrong. The government would be wise to enlist the country's private sector in this gargantuan effort - and soon.

Opinion: Politicians Want V-Shaped Recovery At Any Cost. Over To RBI

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Thursday December 17, 2020

The local currency is a sitting duck for appreciation against a weakening dollar.

Opinion: PM Modi Needs One More Farm Law To End Crisis

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday December 14, 2020

Farmers' protests are threatening to snowball into the biggest political crisis of Narendra Modi's tenure.

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