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Quick Take | ‘BJP like Hitler’: Arvind Kejriwal’s fear-mongering is in bad taste
Political leaders, especially senior members holding important constitutional posts, must not resort to fear-mongering to meet their political ends.
Quick Take | ICICI Securities – a textbook case of how to lose a winning game
ICICI Securities December quarter numbers are a reflection of the damage that is inflicted by discount brokers
100-word Take | Time's running out for Jet Airways
Naresh Goyal has no option but to agree to cede majority control to woo the likes of Etihad.
Quick Take | Hotstar may get users to pay for Specials, but the game won’t be easy
Originals have always ruled the game of online video streaming, but Hotstar has competitors with deep pockets who aren’t sitting idle either.
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Opinion | Can Trump heroically bring the world economy back from the brink?
Winston Churchill was supposed to have said, ‘‘You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -- after they’ve tried everything else.’
Opinion | India has an opportunity as China tries to boost its economy
Weakening retail sales and industrial production along with wrong GDP numbers show an unpleasant economic climate in China. What are the implications or India?
Is growth in the housing sector finally moving up?
Houses bought in 2018 were by genuine users and there is almost no investor presence
Quick Take | 6 questions answered by inflation numbers
In this scenario, RBI would do well to ensure adequate liquidity, rather than cut rates
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Opinion | China faces two options: Domestic stimulus or trade truce with US
Of the two choices, ending the trade war looks by far the better option.
Quick Take | Off-budget financing: There's no such thing as a free lunch
Presenting a true picture of finances will also force the government to not stray off the path of fiscal prudence.
Opinion | BSP-SP alliance is good news for Congress, but bad news for BJP
The alliance could be a formidable challenge for the BJP which is on the back foot. Going alone is likely to benefit the Congress.
Opinion | Bandhan-Gruh learnings: Rewrite bank ownership rules keeping minority shareholders in mind
The minority investors, perhaps, have been the worst sufferers, unless the stocks rebound quickly enough to more than offset the losses.
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100-Word Take | The 0.5% growth in IIP for November 2018 is not a sign of a slowdown
The message after clubbing the growth for October and November 2018 together is that overall industrial production growth continues to hold up well, without any slowdown.
Quick Take | Behind JLR and Ford job cuts: China and Brexit
Both JLR and Ford need to be ready for the future that will be of autonomous and electric cars. This would require fundamental redesigning of the way they run their businesses.

Opinion | Monetary transmission: Trapped in the middle
Bond issuers benefit while bank borrowers face sharp rise in funding costs.
100-Word Take | Was the recent market fall worse than the taper tantrum?
For India, the extent of the fall in the Sensex from its highs was much more during the Chinese scare, but that was also the period when we had our spectacular demonetisation experiment
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Quick Take | Lok Sabha polls: Will a delay in Ayodhya verdict affect BJP?
An overt focus on religion and communal issues in the run-up to the polls could backfire on the BJP as it is yet to build the temple in Ayodhya.
100-Word Take | CBI: Who will guard the guards themselves?
Whosoever is appointed as the new CBI boss must, like Caesar's wife, be above suspicion.
100-Word Take| Government may have finally struck gold with Gold Monetisation Scheme
The changes are a win-win for both as temples will earn a tax-free dividend on their hoard while the government gets the gold it needs.
Quick Take | GST tweaks highlight that complicated structure needs to go
Current move may be good politics, but it also shows up shoddy implementation
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100-Word Take | When elephants fight, how badly does the grass get trampled?
As per World Bank’s baseline scenario, US GDP growth will slow by 0.4 percentage points in 2019 and another 0.8 percentage points in 2020
Opinion | Two important questions in the Rafale vs Eurofighter debate
The onus for the conviction of Christian Michel will be on the authorities who will have to prove that he fell into the illegal middleman category rather than the legal, paid employee category.
Opinion| Bandhan Bank: Should regulations be guiding business decisions?
If synergies of Bandhan and Gruh are so good, why didn't HDFC and HDFC bank think of this synergy to create a real giant with tremendous economic power.
Opinion | Politics must not cast a shadow over literary events
The controversy surrounding the revoking of an invite to Nayantara Sahgal is unfortunate especially given Maharashtra's long history of fierce literary resistance to the political regime of the day.
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100-Word Take | Discount brokers are here to stay, analysts beware!
Discount broking is here to stay. Retail clients have just proved that like all Indian consumers, they are price sensitive

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