The Hindu Business Line : Friday, July 18, 2008

ECONOMY: Optimism on the economy’s direction
A double-digit inflation rate, threatening food crisis, climbing fuel prices and the imbroglio over the nuclear deal – all theseand more raise the question as to the direction the Indian economy is likely to take in the near future. ...

ECONOMY: Is stagflation on the horizon?
Stagflation is a phenomenon which surfaced in the 1970s when the world went through the first oil crisis. Curiously this was also the beginning of the temporary end of Keynesianism because it was shown for the first time that inflation and ...

ECONOMY: The Finance Minister’s transformation
Since the beginning of 2008, inflation concerns have stayed heightened and, more recently, inflation has been rising week after week, threatening to breach the 12 per cent mark. Again, since early 2008, the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, ...

POLITICS: New way to handle the trust vote
According to media reports, the UPA Government is proposing to seek the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha on the basis of a simple, one-line motion, stating (with appropriate verbal variations) that "This House expresses its confidence in the ...

EDITORIAL: Negative vibes
Viewed purely from the perspective of its impact on the financial markets it is safe to say that the decision by international rating agency Fitch to change the rating outlook for investments in rupee-denominated instruments from ...

ENVIRONMENT: Few positives from G-8 meet
The Japanese have a genius for making the gift wrapping more attractive than the gift itself. Evidently, some of this genius had rubbed on to the statesmen who met in Toyako in the northern island province of Hokkaido in Japan from July 7-9 and ...

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