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Mint Quick Edit | Rich returns for NRI depositors may tempt sneaky round-trippers to get creative

New Delhi, June 26 -- Under-invoiced exports and over-invoiced imports, with the difference stashed away abroad in collusion with allied agents, were once a classic way for resident Indians to jump ca... Read More


India dodged the 'Greenspan put' but that era's lessons for monetary policy must never be lost

New Delhi, June 25 -- For all the encomiums penned after Alan Greenspan passed away on Monday at the age of 100, a dispassionate view of his career points to the perils of placing mortals on pedestals... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | China's new 'ethnic unity' law suggests an attempt at global dominion

New Delhi, June 25 -- China was meant to be more communist than nationalist. But it has raised eyebrows with a reported new law due to come into force this July, under which the so-called People's Rep... Read More


Meta's Cred game suggests it wants a slice of India's digital economy but is talent acquisition enough?

New Delhi, June 24 -- Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lately been reaching for his cheque book to solve strategic problems. Confronted with mounting competition in AI, for instance, Meta spent billions... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | London's revolving door for PMs reflects Britain's post-Brexit economy

New Delhi, June 24 -- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's resignation is just the latest in a series of political shudders that the country has undergone since its decision to leave the EU via a ref... Read More


Statistical overhaul: policymakers should be relieved by this year's revamp of the economy's key trackers

New Delhi, June 23 -- In the midst of a hubbub over West Asia's peace deal and US Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's maiden policy meeting last week, the latest upgrade of India's macroeconomic statistical frame... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Russian oil is flowing into India-but what about the geopolitical angle?

New Delhi, June 23 -- Although uncertainty prevails over whether the US will extend its sanctions waiver for India's Russian oil imports, inward shipments are poised to hit their highest monthly level... Read More


Is the Federal Reserve in safe hands? Here's what to make of its first policy meeting under Warsh

New Delhi, June 22 -- Last Wednesday, the US Fed's newly minted chair Kevin Warsh showed an eagerly waiting and watching world that he is his own man, not his master's voice. In a move that was widel... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Why Jio Platforms' thin-slice IPO shouldn't surprise us

New Delhi, June 22 -- Within a decade of Reliance Industries Ltd. Chief Mukesh Ambani's statement that "data is the new oil", Jio Platforms Ltd., the company's telecom-led business incubated for a dig... Read More