I come across a lot of good articles from across the web. This linkfest will help you cut out the noise and focus on what was important in the last week:
Indian Economy:
Bloomberg Quint – Ira Dugal: Consolidation in co-operative banks
Livemint – Tamal Bandyopadhyay: The whys and hows of bank consolidation
Capital Mind – The ONGC-HPCL deal is about something else
Bloomberg Gadfly – Andy Mukherjee: Saving capitalism from capitalists
Bloomberg Quint – Hurdles to housing for all
Bloomberg Quint – The confusion of GST
Livemint – The governments fight against shell companies
Livemint – The rise of metros
Livemint – Improvement in power discoms
Mostly Economics – GST and creativity
Bloomberg Quint – New minimum wage code bill
General:
Bond Vigilantes – Europe 5 years on
The Big Picture – Thomas Piketty: The rise of China
Urbanomics – A closer look at the Uber business model
Collaborative Fund – Betting on things that never change
Investing and Personal Finance:
Capital Mind – The difference between direct and regular is more than what it seems
Subramoney – Unaffordable Mumbai Housing
The Reformed Broker – Falling stock correlations
The Irrelevant Investor – How do you think about gold?
Monevator – Do you have a money mind?
Youtube – Bihar Politics
Youtube – Aswath Damodaran: How do you value a user?
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Rishad is the founder of Kairos Capital. He started his career with Standard Chartered Wealth Management and has extensive experience in markets, particularly in terms of mutual funds and stocks.