Category Archives: Analysis

Coronavirus and the State

Coronavirus in India

Covid-19 Pandemic The world is in an unprecedented lock down over a threat of a flu virus’s new strain called SARS-Cov-2 that causes a respiratory disease called Covid-19. All the data so far coming suggest that the only group most vulnerable to this disease are very old people with underlying health issues like diabetes, heart […]

Coronavirus Lockdown and Market Meltdown

Lockdown

Globe trotting investment advisor and Mises India Institute supporter, advisor and contributing author Mr. Jayant Bhandari was recently interviewed about the recently declared nation wide lockdown in India which is a country of 1.3 billion people. Last night the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi came on television and announced that he is locking down India […]

How RBI caused the Yes Bank and PMC Bank Collapse

Banking crisis

Recently Mises India Institute President Dr. Madhusudan Raj was interviewed by Mr. Yohan Tengra of Anarchy for Freedom about the on-going banking crisis in India. After the collapse of PMC bank few months ago, recently another big bank Yes Bank has also collapsed. Depositors have lost their everything; some have lost their lives also. Who […]

Modi’s Tax Terrorism

Tax-Terror

With falling direct and indirect tax revenues (sic), the Modi government is desperate to raise more money to spend on their fiscal programs to allegedly bring the economy out of the slump which they think is caused by a fall in aggregate demand. Experts and even BJP MPs like Subramanian Swamy are calling this tax terrorism. I am going to analyze two […]

Indian Economy is in the grips of Stagflation

Stagflation

With the slowing GDP, the rising prices – the retail inflation rose to its highest since Modi came to power in 2014 of level of 7.35% in December – of various goods like onion, garlic, milk etc., is raising a specter of stagflation in India. Modi government is pushing RBI, which it owns, to lower […]