META name="y_key" content="f2ab7f45e87c5e0d"> Interactive dialogue: March 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Inundated Business.

Floods inundate land.
Frauds inundate business.


Agriculture depends on rainfall.
An excess of down pour destroys the crop.
A meagre  rain chars the crop.


Aim at sufficiency .
Both agriculture and industry should track production to the optimum.

The procedure in agriculture is limited ,
It is sowing ,manuring and harvesting.
At times of  water shortage, irrigation is involved.
The marketing brings in lot more problems ,like finding an appropriate buyer, who is trust worthy and credit worthy.


Manufacturing is  complicated.
It processes diffident syllabus and difficult strategies.
It also proposes a vast  reference to  illegal transactions.


Shareholders are part of the management.
Their participation is trifle .
Their rights are enormous.
Undermining their power, the management indulges in nefarious activities .
They squander, they plunder, they loot and do what not and what else to derail the smooth performance.
The core team  gains wealth at the expense of the sharholder.
Limiting the involvement of the sharholder to nil, the top brass segregate the profits to a sheltered area, and push forward a duplicated version of proit and loss statement.
The participant is tricked.
His money and he get into a muddy trench.
By the time he realises, the Chief would have made good of his burgulary,pretending to be straight and sincere.
The business gets flooded with raw deal of treacherous manipulation and mixed bag of fraudelent  deceits.


Inundated business has become the talk of the day.
This wreckless behaviour of the few has ruined the plausibilty of true business.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Arrest The Inflation

Surveying the markets ,is one of my frontier occupation.
The three months of 2010 has seen a vibrant spurt in the price index.
Consumer goods ,right from onions to rice have risen to unpredictable levels.
Construction materials from sand to steel have crossed the imaginable realisation.
Commodities like oil to gold have been hijacked.
Labour costs have reached the limits.
It is expense  at the risk of saving.
However much you earn , in four digits or five digits ,the end of the day you are empty handed..
Irrespective of the revenue consumerism has made a rapid foray ,leaving the bread winner in tatters.



Coming to the essentials, we have to control inflation.
Right! This is an unanimous alibi
How to imprison this ebbing challenge?


By adjusting currencies is a prominent way out.
Powerful should download some of its inhibitions against the weak ones,.
Juxtaposition  of strong  with mild.
This has to be done ,that too in an emergency level.


By hiking interest rates is a secondary move.
The flowing liquidity or can we term it as surplus liquidity  has to be withdrawn..
As liquidity tightens ,spending will  be fastened  fiercely resulting in less purchase.
As the necessity dwindles , there would be an excess of products, in the market leading to a fall in prices.
Inflation gets halted.
This theory sounds far fetched and less pragmatic.
It invites suspicion and apprehension.



The black economy has also to be taken care off.
High taxes direct one to conceal income, manipulate the turn over, and confirm a second method of accounting which never comes to light.
Unless the tax get subdued and subsidised, the rising inflation will not recoil.
This is the sure proposal to control inflation .
The goverments have to view this substantial merit before anchoring any other measure.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Business Manipulations

Manipulations ,over a time ,erode true business.
Business are carried out for profit.
They sustain the economy.
They contribute to the welfare of the nation with their high revenues and still higher employment.


Business ,has lost its credibitly ,with the modern rigging and mundane churning.
The avariciousness to pile up  wealth has gained an upperhand over the justifiable accumulation of money.
Real business earns profit.
It does not produce propitious prosperity.
True business makes you rich gradually.
It does not transform rags into riches overnight.



The trend prevelant is similar to grabbing, akin to seizing, a replica of theft .
It is robbery in broad daylight.
Thieves loot during dusk and mostly at mid night.
The manipulators of business, transact at noon, scrolling over their figures in paper.
They lend money.
They collect interest at a duration of a day, of a month and of a year.
They indulge in atrocities ,if the borrower fails to repay.
The brokers commit a severe transgression, by reaping high percentage as commissions.
The merchants make quick money, by selling goods in black, and also by distributing adulterated provisions.
The professionals ,medical , accounting engineering ,engage in malpractises to add enormous wealth.
The manufacturer evades tax, by susbsiding the performance.
The politician collects heavy donations in the guise of charity and under certain unravelled heads to fill his coffers.
The bureaucrats ,for their turn ,accept bribes to accomplish certain regulations, thus refurbishing their pay packets.

Thus goes the world, cheating one another, exposing the greed ,expressing unnatural logic.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Lifting the market

The stocks look cheerful..
There is a general feeling of  contentment.
Robust activism has taken a sway over the numbed delinquency.


The Asian markets are reacting to the global cues.
The U.S datas are encouraging.
The European system is subdued by the Greek tremor.
The Greecian set back ,has pulled the euro to a lowest level.


Brazil and the Latin American countries are making a strong presence in the financial  arena.


Commodities are in a stabilised prospect.
Gold is steady, silver slightly weak, oil popping up and down, and the other targets are also making  a frontier movement.
The manufacturing and industrial outputs are aggressive.
 All the roads are leading to prosperity.
Will the sustained trend last ?

Survival is in the hands of the credential properitors.
The remarkable significance of growth is to be found in the discreet policies and infalliable directions.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Economics Of The Billionaires

Slim,Gates and Buffet are the wealthiest men of 2010.
This is according to Forbes analysis.



Slim is a Mexican telecom tycoon,the first one from a developing nation to head to the top..He,at 70. is the most unostentatious person, working from his office ,buying out business in crisis,earning good results.He rose to the top from the third position.


Bill Gates , ths software wizard, who was in top for a couple of years, is no longer the world's richest man.

Warren Buffet , has come out as the third richest man in the world.

Thus goes the ranking,and the difference between the first and second is just .5billion.
Not much  of a difference, but worthy for a ranking.


The economics ,of the richest goes without saying, is one of deep analysis, right investment,  exact management, and fine performance.
When it rains we have to put forth a bucket ,not a thimble, calls Buet.
True ,in times of recession the wealthiest raked up gold ,while their counterparts were gathering wool.
While the rest were groaning and mourning, the fortunate, rather can we call them as the pushers made quick and shrewd moves to earn revenue,.
Earn they did, in shares ,which had a grumpling setback, bought failing companies, invested in lesser  known  criteria.
A well balanced investment,with a tinge of apprehension, dotted by a daring activity had created wonders.


No economists  could frame a rule for such upsurge.
No research could model a doctrine for such a hype.
It is a precious achievement of the individual.
It is a prosperous creation of the human brain.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Government Goes Bankrupt

Bankruptcy has become a common word.
Years ago , bankruptcy bore a nasty sense and an ashamed comfiture.
Today , the word  gets a normal approval, as most banks have collapsed, industries  have wound up, individuals  are broke, and the latest scenario covers the governmets.
Greece is in red.
U.S is about to pop off.
India ,which is seen as a progressive economy has a state, called Tamilnadu , in its federation, which has disclosed that it has Rs seventy three thousand crores as deicit.
The population of the state is 7.3 crores.
Each one is liable for Rs 10,000.
It is alarming.
The apprehension sparks  a status of insecurity .


The government  remains unperturbed .
It is liberal in extending free current, free television, free health care.
Every free is  heavily coated with debt.
The ruling party, which comprises of a family, father, sons , daughter, are having a fabulous time in filling their coffers.
The nephews are looting the media.
The grandchildren have taken control of the cine field.
They produce films, direct films, act in films and distribute the films and  the shows are conducted in their cine complexes.
It is a perfect circle.


The state is going to the dogs.
The family is getting enriched.
The government goes bankrupt.
The family achieves surplus wealth.
The state loses .
The family gains.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.-Newton's law of Motion.
So in Tamilnadu,
For every liability there is an equal and opposite liability.-Karunanidhi's Law of  Succession
A grand cumulative interest is accrued.
Good Going Karunanidhi!!!

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Erratic Business.

Right time at the right moment is the basis of all success.
Skill, talent, prudence and money are all subsidaries.



An industry is prone to ups and downs.
In India ,the cotton spinning industry was doing great in the post independent decade and even some ten years back there was a reasonable profit  in running the mills..
The  latest ten years saw a complete washout.
Only a hand picked textile units were able to sustain.
Mumbai and Ahmedabad the chief centres for spinning cotton yarn ,were in the procedure of closing the gates during late eighties and early nineties saw a mass collapse.
The southern textile mills were making a marginal profit during this period,
This industry ,usually experienced boom and recession al throughout.
But after 1997,there was an abject performance which struck a heavy blow on the mill owners.
There was a helter skelter run of the manging directors, directors ,as the fear of the creditors strategic moves of arresting the mill owners for non payment of bills., loomed large.
The industry lost its credibilty.
The banks were hostile.
The government policies were not supportive.
The rich tycoons became a shadow of themselves overnight.
The few mills ,which were working , managed on slender margins.


Then ,there was Information technology hype.
The software industry was the talk of the decade.
A job in a software company was an ideal one.
The charm of medicine and commerce  was lost.
Lured by the high returns, software companies propped up in hundreds and thousands.
The wealth accumulation was fastidious, beyond anyone's dream.
Inofsys is money spinner.
Wipro, cognizant , TCS are in the run.
There is an extensive growth of splendour.
The IT men became the nouveau rich.
Satyam , saw a fine trend .
It competed with the leading sotware companies.
Its Chief ,Ramaling a raju , was a man with a golden wand.
His company saw an enormity that it went into diversiifcations very soon.
The eggs in the basket were hatching one by one.
Many had a development that was unprecedently rapid.
A few had hiccups.
Raju indulges in transferring huge amount rom Satyam to Mayatas.
Incidentally Mayatas is an acronym of Satyam, so the money ,which was swept rom Satyam to mayatas could also be defined as an acronym.
Truth got unravelled gradually.


One fine ,morning , there was a spontaneous terrible  quake in the world  of Satyam.
The magnitude was so high and intense ,that the outbreak was hard to believe.
One by one the house built of cards crumbled.
Raju and his close aides were imprisoned.
Today, it is reported that he is  suffering from chronic illness.
The tale seems unbelievable.
We are familiar with rags to riches themes.
The riches to rags concept is peculiar and at the same time perplexing.



Do you think that this is the end of  the story?
Never be misguided.
Many more such erratic business would occur, sending the trespassers to the prison and deceiving the beleivers.
That is how life goes on.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Global Woe

There appears a numbed designation.
There follows a confidential disaster.
There proceeds an apparent uneasiness.
The world, on the whole is shaky and frustrated.
Why?
It is globalisation, that has performed such a difficult plight.
This formidable concept has proved to be a dismal failure.


Thoughts, when they hatch, look gorgeous, cause great excitement,
When they blossom ,they undergo changes that are sometimes unpredictable.
One such vivacious thought is Globalisation.


The American empire is on the verge of collapse.
The Greecian concern is one of panic.
China ,is overcautious, that it substantiates policies with lot of ifs and buts ,that refract the indices.
The Indian economy is pretty stead fast.
The dollar is not stable.
Th pound has sloped deep.
The commodities are presenting a pernicious movement.
There is a sudden outbreak.
Break can be bothwise-upward and downwad.
If the break is not balanced, there arises a tilt,which pulls the economy high or low.
The struggle to keep equivocal position is not in the plane.
The swift gravitional force of inflation is playing riot .
So ,the much appreciated globalisation is getting depreciated and inflcts a disillusion.
It is similar to a flirtation, but this quality regales a light ,frivolous acrimony .
It is most unfortunate.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

China's Golden Move

China refrains from buying Gold., is the latest news.
The announcement has slowed down gold momentum.
Gold price,which was going up  in hectic speed has halted.
The gold consuming nations India and China, have taken an opposite reference regarding the purchase of gold.


The Indian Reserve Bank ,took the world in storm ,when it bought gold from IMF.
The next bulk buyer ,would be China ,was everybody's anticipation.
But the Chinese hesitation has  surprised the world.
The Gold prices have been shot .
There would be a decisive down trend .
The competition always boosts the prices.
The expectation of China entering into a purchase mood ,has been diffused by the announcement.
So the yellow metal  will remain in as is where is condition, till any further decicion.


The inflationary trend of Gold has been softened.
The lure and lust for this metal, especially in India and China  are clandestinely pernicious.
The peril expressed in  aacuumulating stocks has led to a buoyancy in acquiring kilos of Gold.
Gold does not earn revenue.
Gold does not also lose value ,as paper stocks and monetary transactions, felt in the weakening of dollar.
The investment interest still persists .
So we do not see a dismal tumble, but a marginal decrease is on the way.


The Golden move of China ,is welcome at this juncture , as the precious metal is breaking the norms in price and blasting the codes in accumulation.
A direction from China, will make the investors look the other way, into stocks ,property and other commodities.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Caricaturing The Economy

Economy is as interesting as a painting.
Caricature is an art .
It is a representation of a pictorial or a literary, in which the  themes  festures or peculiarites are deliberately exaggerated, to produce a comic or grotesque efect.
Can such be attempted in Economy?



Economy can be best represented in this art form.
Taking facial caricature as an illustration, we  have to study the face with much diligence.
Every face is beautiful.Every face has a feature dominant.
So ,if you see a face with wide eyes , then you can go on with your  caricature  by stressing on this dominant  aspect.
So also in literature, a prominent scene gets decked up in a caricature that has a telling effect on the reader.
This eminence find its way into the literary assignment adding a pictorial effect to the publication.


Economy also can be portrayed with great ease and splendour in this art form.
The resplendency of economy had a beautiful representation .
The reflection was found in the myriads of plentiful accumulation of revenue and commodities.
There was a gay rejoice and an immaculate replica of prosperity.
The graphical markings highlighted these elevation with much fanfare.
The research translated the glory in  effectual terms, marked by smile, laugh ,grin with a backdrop of lush green and golden tinge.


The present caricature of the prevelant economy is one of gloom and despair.
The transcription in caricature show eventful incidents,  which streamline the down trend in a cryptic style.
The recuperation was performed in a sordid fashion,arranging the collapseof banks, unemployment data, and an upsurge of deficiency.
The tracing in the graphs pivot a destituion ,pinpointing the abject failure and colossal damage.
The thesis evolve the recession  in emphatic forms,describing the grief, downfall, and the entire break down.
The caricature emantes a cry, a sob, in a background of dry parchments exhibiting a pale yellow spluttered with a blackish smudge.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Wading Into Business

As a duck wades into water,easily and lightly,a business oriented person glides into his occupation, undeterred by recession, setbacks ,unfavourable trends.
He keeps vigil over his business,that rain or shine do not affect him.
A  fish cannot be out of water, if kept away, it dies.
So an ardent lover of business ,cannot be pushed out of his orientation.
His goal is  transaction.
His target is profit.


There was an uproar when Ratan Tata, took over the Jaguar manufacturing unit and the Corus company.
There was large scepticism .
There was  a nimbling fear in the Tata group too, that this entanglement would land Ratan Tata in trouble.
But Ratan Tata was firm and resolute.
He did not back out .
To fund his project ,he sold  a sizeable volume of Tata and Sons shares.
The project, though a little shaky in the start, was given proper attention by Tata management, thus stabilising the acquired companies.
Those of whom , who envisaged a break down  got astounded.
Ratan Tata, saw potential gains.
He saw beyond time and speculated beyond scope.
His farsightedness and keen insight has made him look tall among a group of disbelivers.


Looking beyond reach, analysing the impossibilites , arriving at strange policies, concluding unclaimed proposals, claiming success over left overs ,might sound little negative.
But ,this is an out of box motivation, that heralds success.
That which others rejected has become a darling in the hands of Ratan Tata.
It is his way of Business.
It is his own reward.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Oil ,Oil,Oil.

Oil  is moving steadily.
Well, we have forgotten crude oil for quiet some time.
Now its presence is felt again.
Remnisence is the best equipment to tabulate the oscillation.

Oil ,which was ranging at $147 ,in 2008 , saw a drastic fall in 2009.
it tumbled as, the famous nursery rhyme goes, 
Jack fell down,
Jill came tumbling after.
Oil rolled  ruggedly in its down fall, dashing against rocks, getting bruised in the course, badly deformed in the end o its abject slope.
It stagnated at $47, for a leisure.
There was rejoicing world over,except in the Gulf where oil is excavated.




While the economy was focusing on other dimensions, oil slowly propped up.
But ,the satisfaction of keeping oil under the toes ,made the world ,pay least attention to this essential product.
Discreetly ,oil did its exercise.
It coped to the price factor of $50.
Then ,as the  nations were busy patrolling on the GDP , oil made a definite move.
It got the price tag of $60.
The jobless data was argued to the exact magnitude.
The collapse of banks was the subject of debate.
Health care was the main controversy.
Gold was making a significant head through.
Stocks were dancing to the dollar's performance.
Oil unfastened its tight belt, and rose up to $70.
The world was unaware of this momentum.


Ranging at $70 , for a comprehensive period, unattended by the developed and developing nations, oil bombarded  a severe shot,as it made a tidy $80.
The alarm  ,this time was louder than expected.
Today we hear a shrill cry from the affected,as again oil is up with a vengeance.
Soon it will reach the peak  in no time.
Beware of Oil!