For someone who has been on the run for nearly 10 years, Osama Bin Laden’s end came swiftly. It took the U.S. Navy Seals just 40 minutes to eliminate America’s most wanted man, who was hiding, not in the treacherous mountains on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border — as it was widely believed — but in a sprawling mansion just miles away from Islamabad. Within hours, his body was buried, somewhere in the North Arabian Sea. Not surprisingly, there was one common thread in the way most people around … [Read more...]
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Insider Trading Shakes Investor Trust in Market
Since the 1980s, the issue of insider trading has rocked the Wall Street every few years, with a top executive of a company or a reputed individual getting caught while trading with what’s called ‘non-public information.’ What usually occurs at the end of these periodic scandals is a loss of public confidence in the financial system and, for the individuals involved, a loss of reputation and occasional jail terms, if found guilty. Now, more than six years after celebrity entrepreneur and … [Read more...]
At long last, Indians Revolt Against Corruption
In the first 63 years of its independence, India’s attitude towards corruption had been two-pronged: while one half of the nation displayed a remarkable level of tolerance for graft, the other was largely apathetic to the issue. Though front-page story after story had been exposing corruption that pervaded the country’s political system from top to bottom, the electorate’s response has been large yawns. Historically, few governments have been voted out on account of corruption, even though … [Read more...]
India’s rich should emulate Gates, Buffett
Two distinguished Americans are in India this week on a noble mission. William Gates, Jr. and Warren Buffett, the second and third richest individuals on the planet and also among its most generous, landed in the country earlier in the week to preach giving to India’s super-rich. The visits of Buffet, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and Gates, the Microsoft founder, are part of their “Giving Pledge” campaign, which was launched last year to encourage the world’s wealthiest … [Read more...]
India-U.S. trade: A frontier of possibilities
The final figures on India-U.S. trade in merchandise goods for 2010, which was released recently by the U.S. Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade Division, are both encouraging and sobering at the same time. But, first, the hard, cold statistics: the volume of trade between the world’s richest country and its 11th largest economy was worth $48.8 billion last year; the U.S. exports to India accounted for $19.2 billion and its imports from the country totaled $29.5 billion. Exports to the United … [Read more...]
Chinese Premier Wen’s Visit: An opportunity missed
It’s jobs, stupid
The Great Recession may have ended worldwide, but there seems to be no end in sight for the global labour market downturn that accompanied it, especially in the so-called advanced economies. In many countries the job losses and their slow recovery, which are of historic proportion, have the potential to threaten their long-term economic and social stability. In the United States, the epicenter of the slump, unemployment clawed back to a near-double-digit 9.8 per cent last month, perilously … [Read more...]
Reinventing the American Dream: by Frank Islam, George Munoz & Ed Crego – Book Review
"2010 - 2019 will be the decisive decade. The decisions we make and the actions we take in this decade will determine the future of America and the American Dream for all of us", write societal and economic thinkers Frank Islam, George Muñoz, and Ed Crego in their provocative and visionary book Renewing the American Dream: A Citizens Guide. The authors challenge the standard ways of thinking about government, business, the economy, and the role of the nation's citizens, and describe their … [Read more...]
Another Fabulous year for India-US ties
Interdependence Day: Celebrating the “Us” in USA
The country is currently awash in controversy over two topics. One is the appropriateness of locating a mosque near ground zero in New York City. The other is the discussion about revising the 14th amendment to address the citizenship status of the children of "illegal immigrants" born in the United States. These issues are the tip of the iceberg and symptoms of an underlying problem. That problem is the fragile status of the American community and our relations to each other as Americans. … [Read more...]