'That the 'I' word is swirling around Washington these days attests to the atmosphere that has taken hold and cannot but have a negative impact on political and economic decision-making,' says......
In a competitive democracy, every election campaign involves a calculated gamble. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's apparent decision to go along with the rest of the party and settle for a......
It was the formidable chief of US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan who coined the term "irrational exuberance" to describe the stock market boom of the late-1990s. It's a term that constantly rings......
Is the United Nations redundant? Or is it the solitary obstacle to a world dominated by the United States? Both President George W Bush and his Secretary of State Colin Powell have recently and......
Vajpayee had always felt that India must act with conviction and panache.He decided that, irrespective of the attendant risks, he would undertake what many felt was a precarious course.A......
'India's fundamentals are a lot better (than those of other emerging market economies).' 'India will suffer (witness a fall in its stock market) what I call the second order effect.''And the second......
The chances of the United States economy slipping into another recession are close to 25-30 per cent, a noted American economist said. "I see a third to fourth of a chance of a double-dip (in the......
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday urged the graduating class at one of the US' top business schools to remember that, even in a business world tainted by corporate scandal, the nice......
US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan believes that America should allow the creation and adoption of labour-saving technologies (outsourcing?) and easier immigration to offset a presaged......
Measures to curb outsourcing of American jobs to lower-wage countries like India and China may provide temporary relief, but it would backfire on the United States, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan......