inflation

There is one good news and one bad news! Of course, the good news first – the growth engine of the world, the United States, is recovering with a surge in exports to their highest level in 2 years helping it narrow their trade deficit. And,…

Onion prices had risen to a high of more than Rs 100/kg in December bringing tears to the entire country. This coupled with tomato selling at Rs 40/kg and garlic at Rs 300/kg, the entire country seemed in a desperate situation. The ban on…

Inflation has kind of become a Yamraj (the god of death) – It is gaining in strength day by day and taking a toll of things. Obviously, you have heard of onions touching close to 60 rupees a kg and Garlic going upwards 300 rupees a…

Love to top-up your maska Pav-bhaji with raw onions? Think twice! The Aam-aadmi has already reduced his intake of onions as a part of his daily diet. Though, I am a bit late to report on this topic, sky-rocketing onion prices are literally…

The Indian stock markets have corrected to the extent of 5% from its peaks – the benchmark Sensex has slipped below a psychological 20,000 mark - over the last one week on the back of resurgence of sovereign debt crisis and fears of…

How many times in India have we witnessed opposition political parties creating hullabaloo over high inflation against the ruling party? Take a recent example of the opposition stalling Parliament proceedings over high food inflation.…

Winding the coil and unwind it! – thats what RBI seems to have done better than most other Central banks world over since the start of the global recession. In fact, RBI has gone one step further and announced that it will come out with…

This has been a raging debate for a while now – Just to give a perspective, in India prices for fuel (Petrol, Diesel, Kerosene, LPG etc) are regulated by the Government. In today’s scenario for example, the market prices for Petrol are…

Returns from bank Fixed deposit (FD) are at their lowest point, attracting lower interest from the retail investors on account of low value for money when compared with high inflation rates. This leads to very negligible real rate of return…

Are we going nuts over India’s inflation touching 11.5%? Think about a country where the inflation is 2.2 million percent. Yes, that’s right Zimbabwe’s inflation has risen from 165,000% in February to whooping 2.2 million. Can you…