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RBI's regulatory arc for banking can be explained by weak animal spirits in the economy

New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is right to worry about both a slowdown in credit growth and weak animal spirits in the domestic market, represented by a marked reluctance to stu... Read More


Can Rs.10,000 crore spark a manufacturing boom? Depends on where the money goes

New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- In line with India's goal of raising its factory output from about 13% of GDP to 25%, the government plans to boost its outlay for the National Manufacturing Mission to Rs.10,000... Read More


Does an AI winter loom? Big Tech's reckless Agentic AI drive is enlarging that risk

New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- Big Tech seems bent on selling us Agentic AI browsers as some sort of digital manna. OpenAI's Atlas is the latest entrant, positioning itself as a rival to Google's AI-powered Ch... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Trump's sanctions are likely to squeeze Russian oil supply: Will it hurt India?

New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- With US President Donald Trump expressing frustration over Russia's refusal to halt its hostilities in Ukraine, his administration has imposed sanctions on two big Russian suppli... Read More


India must master rare earth recycling-and not just to ease China's chokehold

New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- The electronics and information technology ministry's proposal to include the recycling of rare earth materials in the government's production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for r... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Deepfake menace: Why tagging truth may work better than labelling fakes

New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- With deepfakes and other AI-generated content flooding the virtual world, it's all but impossible to make out what's authentic and what's not. The government is trying to control... Read More


Systemic risk: Why non-banks have begun to haunt financial stability again

New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, goes an old saying. Presumably, the financial system of the West has learnt a thing or two from its 2007-08 crisis t... Read More


Trade tariffs may not be the powerful weapon that America thinks it is

New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- With trade tensions between the US and China flaring up again, the spotlight is on how their game of mutually assured disruption plays out. As China had pre-existent problems, it... Read More


As risks and returns shift across investment avenues, not investing may be the biggest risk of all

New Delhi, Oct. 20 -- Diwali has focused attention on gyrations of the Indian stock market. Traditionally, it is a time for traders to open new account books, hoping that the first day of trading will... Read More


Festive tax stimulus: Will a sales bounce mop up enough GST to plug revenue gaps?

New Delhi, Oct. 20 -- It is to the government's credit that it didn't need to revive its anti-profiteering authority, disbanded in 2022, to have retail prices reflect last month's GST rate cuts. On S... Read More