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Opinion: Thanks, Bureaucrats, GST Been Turned Into An Absolute Mess: Foreign Media

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg View | Monday November 07, 2016

The new council of central and state finance ministers empowered to administer the tax has decided on a GST with four levels and numerous exemptions.

Opinion: Opinion: Three Figures Tata's Successor Needs For Job Interview

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Gadfly | Friday November 04, 2016

If the position in question is chairman of Tata Group, there might be three figures - $40 billion; 2020; and 250 basis points.

Opinions: All Hail Saudi Arabia's Victory In War On High-Cost Oil

Julian Lee, Bloomberg Gadfly | Sunday October 23, 2016

Saudi oil minister Khalid Al-Falih said at last week's Oil & Money conference in London, if OPEC had cut output in November 2014 to support prices, it would have had to do so again in 2015 and 2016.

Opinion: Mukesh Ambani, India Needs You To Keep Spending: Foreign Media

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Gadfly | Friday October 21, 2016

India's richest tycoon is also the country's most optimistic spender. Every project into which Ambani is pumping money is close to fruition, meaning he could sit back and savor the rewards.

Opinions: Indian Software Died Today, Look At TCS, Infy: Foreign Media

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Gadfly | Friday October 14, 2016

The first hint that the end was near came when TCS announced a virtual stalling of its business in the September quarter. Infosys followed up by slashing its full-year revenue guidance for the second time in three months.

Opinions: Why Toyota And Suzuki Need Each Other In India: Foreign Media

David Fickling, Bloomberg View | Thursday October 13, 2016

The world's biggest carmaker is a bit player in a country that's forecast to become the third-biggest auto market by 2020.

Opinion: Door To Foreign Investors Only Half-Open In India

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday August 09, 2016

Once again, India is in danger of sabotaging its own efforts to raise foreign investment to China-like levels. The latest salvo in this undeclared, self-defeating war is the government's reported decision to block Tata Sons from paying what arbitrators say the company owes to a former partner, the Japanese company NTT DoCoMo.

Opinion: S.African Voters Cast Their Ballots For Change

Bloomberg | Monday August 08, 2016

South Africa's voters have long had plenty to complain about. In municipal elections last week, they gave voice to their grievances. In what amounted to a referendum on the national government's performance, they called for change.

Opinion: Here's The Economist Whose Ideas Guide Donald Trump

Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg | Tuesday August 02, 2016

When talk turns to Donald Trump's economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow and Stephen Moore are the two most familiar names. Yet there is another economist associated with Trump who is perhaps the most influential of the lot, and that is Peter Navarro at the University of California at Irvine.

Opinion: When Clues Nearly Led The FBI To America's Favorite Saudi

Eli Lake, Bloomberg | Monday July 18, 2016

For anyone who remembers Washington in the 1980s and 1990s, the Saudi ambassador at the time was something of a legend. Prince Bandar bin Sultan seemed to know everybody. He was close friends with both Bush presidents and enjoyed warm ties with President Bill Clinton.

Opinion: The Sun, Not The Rain, Tipped The U.K. Vote

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg | Friday June 24, 2016

Leighton Vaughan Williams, a professor at Nottingham Business School who specializes in betting research, has long held that betting markets are better predictors of election outcomes than polls. Yet ahead of the U.K. vote on whether to leave the European Union, the bookies failed as miserably as pollsters to predict the result -- actually, they did much worse. At cer...

Opinion: India Needs To Respond To Rajan's Departure: Foreign Media

Bloomberg | Tuesday June 21, 2016

In few countries would a central banker's decision to step down at the end of his term be cause for national and even global anxiety. Raghuram Rajan is no ordinary central banker, however, and his just-announced departure demands an extraordinary response from India's government.

Opinion: One Chinese City Has Figured Out The Future

Christopher Balding, Bloomberg | Tuesday June 14, 2016

China's Xi Jinping recently declared that he wants China to rank as one of the world's most innovative countries by 2020 and to top the list by mid-century. Going by past practice, this probably means a lot more money being poured into dodgy startups and ill-conceived high-tech schemes. There's a better model to be found, however, one that's surprisingly close to home...

Opinion: Obama And PM Modi Need To Start Talking About Pak: Foreign Media

Bloomberg | Thursday June 09, 2016

The flourishing of India-U.S. ties on display this week in Washington has something to do with the personal rapport between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- and much more to do with their mutual interest in counterbalancing China. The more immediate threat to their common security interests, however, comes from Pakistan.

Opinion: How Theranos's Founder Lost $4.5 Billion Overnight

Noah Smith, Bloomberg | Tuesday June 07, 2016

Forbes made quite a stir last week, by reporting that it had cut the estimated net worth of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes from $4.5 billion to ... zero. Since Forbes is widely regarded as the authority on the size of private fortunes, this was a dramatic move.

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