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A habit can be developed if we do something for a long time. For doing something consistently, we need to assure the following: either we love doing that OR the perks of doing that should keep us going. Well, I am not sure I can make you love The Economic Times (ET), but I surely can tell you some of its perks which may get you interested in reading  it...

Many of us have wrong notions about FDI, it’s like letting someone steal our money. But there are some details that are conveniently ignored...

Economics is defined as a social science that studies how individuals, governments, firms and nations make choices on allocating scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants. This may sound complicated, yet the truth is that this discipline surrounds us all...

The term tax haven usually conjures up images of exotic destinations with shady criminals sitting pool-side sipping tropical fruit cocktails. (Kudos Hollywood!) However, the main impetus of the existence of tax havens is not to facilitate illegal international activity, but to attract business to otherwise over-looked developing economies....

The currency which we use today is made of paper. But a long time ago, it was in the form precious metals like gold and silver and also as stones.  Do you know that there is an Island called Yap that even today uses stone as its major currency? Economists love it because it helps answer this really basic question: What is money? Read on to find more about this interesting place...

I started out wanting to review the documentary titled “Too Big to Fail” which is based on a book of the same name by Andrew Ross Sorkin. It basically covers the 2008 financial crisis from the point of view of the then Secretary of Treasury, Henry M Paulson...

Why Start up culture? It is very clear from the current scenario of the world that the smart start up culture is emerging like a rising tide in the global market. Gone are the days when students hoped and worked for a “dream job”, that would fetch them a safe pay and status. But the changing attitude of students, for precisely learning work and experiencing the hardships of a working industry is more in drive...

Oil is the most important natural resource and its price has been one of the most watched trends in economics during the 21st century...

From the Stone Age to urbanization, human race has developed to a great extent. Gone are the days when pigeons carried messages. Technology has paved its way from anything to everything. From households to the corporate world, technology is a part of our system.  The marketplace itself has seen a lot of ways in which it works...

India has an ambivalent relationship with gold. For consumers, gold is a prized asset, cherished as both an adornment and an investment. For the government, gold is a major contributor to the current account deficit, a challenge that needs to be addressed...