How the Gold Standard caused the Great Depression with a little help from Washington and unchecked credit expansion?
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FUTURE RECESSION, BUBBLE DECEPTION & EZRA KLEIN
Mindless dogma, money supply that broadens, and a stanza of W.H. Auden’s
“It’s sort of like what kids make with chewing gum but I just can’t figure”
THE RISE OF POPULISM
A new wave of populists
THE THIRD CONUNDRUM
By Vedant Singh Vishwanath The liberalised Indian economy has seen three major economic downturns that will forever be etched, not only into the hearts and minds of the people that lived through them, but also into the carvings of eternity. The first of these downturns was the slowdown of 1997, which lasted in some form…
THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, & WHY IT MATTERS TO INDIA ?
– Vedant Singh Vishwanath The Strait of Hormuz is something that anyone who’s been following political news for the past few weeks would’ve heard about, yet something that may not be considered an alarming matter for our nation. The Strait of Hormuz is a strategically important strait or narrow strip of water that links the Persian Gulf with the Gulf…
INDIA IN THE MIDST OF THE TRADE WAR
– Vedant Singh Vishwanath Today as global policy makers seem to recede back into the 17th century of protectionism and barriers of unwanted sorts; in trade, in culture, in immigration and even in humanity, something that people can’t stop talking about is the trade war. So before I talk of “ free trade v/s fair…
THE ECONOMICS OF EFFICIENCY
– Vedant Singh Vishwanath Something that almost all Indians seem to complain about is the slowness and often incompetence of our government-run institutions. Given this, despite having no real practical experience in the field; I’d like to throw a little light on this issue being faced by us today. I firmly believe that any modern…
THE ECONOMIC RESURGENCE WE CALL INDIA: SOCIAL WELFARE OR ECONOMIC GROWTH ? AND DO THEY COME TOGETHER ?
– Vedant SIngh Vishwanath India is what many consider a true embodiment of the fact that capitalism has the power to produce drastic improvements in quality of life. In 1991, India was economically of no significance whatsoever. The only asset we had was a huge population, which the archaic socialist ideologies of our politicians, could…
MODITUTIONAL INDEPENDENCE OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS: A Tale of Two Evils
– Vedant Singh Vishwanath Today, as of 26th April 2019; while a billion Indians reach out to make their vote count in the largest democratic exercise of its kind; many question whether the ethos of this democracy has died out. Is it a new era in Indian history, where freedom of expression is muted by…
