How to get rich. These four words tickle the aspirations of anybody who is not living in a cave having given up on maya or this world of illusion! The usual answers to this question deal with tips, some stocks, some real estate that is changing from agri to commercial very soon, some new crypto...
Money with Monika The Corona Conversations Season 4 Episode 23: 6 ratios for your financial life In @livemint The Covid-19 pandemic has forced people to ask some tough questions about their money life. How much should one be spending and saving? How much should one spend on EMIs? How much life insurance should one have?...
Striking a balance between not doing enough and doing too much is tough for money, as it is with relationships. Do too little and a guilt nags at you each time you have a moment. Do too much and you sacrifice your today for limited future gains and life becomes about not living. I’ll leave...
Covid's lessons were hard. But make a note for the rest of your life.
Expense Account, Mint I’m talking to an old friend. The conversation veers around to ageing parents and he speaks of the difficulty in talking to his 80-year-old father about end-of-life choices, putting his assets in order and writing a will. Over the past decade-and-a-half he says he’s been through various stages—indifference (this will sort itself...
Expense Account, Mint The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) long overdue guidelines on wealth management and distribution of financial products such as insurance policies and mutual funds by banks were uploaded on its website on 28 June. The guidelines can be accessed here:http://bit.ly/11xD6DZ and comments sent to the RBI till the end of July. The final...
Expense Account, Mint I’m watching Jolly LLB (and if you write columns as a profession, you can’t just watch anything without the brain firing away and looking for raw material to chew on for future work) and as the movie me-lords its way to the end, where the small town guy wins against the corrupt five-star lawyer...
Segment 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvDdY9Oyzw8 Segment 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doOdtplPKeU Segment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA6o0SxAgfM
Expense Account, Mint Growing up in the 70s and 80s in urban middle India was to know what shortages are. The state strangled enterprise and everything from a scooter to a phone to butter, milk and grain was scarce. The civics and history textbooks stank of double standards as they spoke about an India that...
Segment 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0jz2V657J8 Segment 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMwe0Qe7TII Segment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gScVQpSioQI