Finance capital is always opposed to the use of fiscal measures for stimulating an economy. This is because any such fiscal stimulation undermines the social legitimacy of capitalism, and especially of that segment of it which constitutes the world of…
An absurd debate has been going on for some time in India. On the one side are those who blame Raghuram Rajan, the governor of the Reserve Bank who has just decided not to seek an extension of his term,…
In the fourth round of what has become a periodic exercise, the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), the “oldest and largest” trade union in the industry, has released a list of 5,610 wilful defaulters on debt they owe commercial…
One is witnessing the emergence of a strange and unprecedented phenomenon in the advanced capitalist world, namely the charging of negative interest rates. The European Central Bank reduced its deposit rate to -0.1 percent in June 2014, and since then…
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has surprised many by opting for a “bold”, 50 basis points (or half a percentage point, with one basis point equal to 0.1 per cent) reduction in policy (interest) rates. The interest…
The Reserve Bank of India, as is to be expected, has been denying that its Governor Raghuram Rajan had ever suggested that the world was facing the possibility of a 1930s-type Great Depression. Members of the “global financial community” are…
The current stand-off is more of a government effort to regain influence over macroeconomic management, as the government is accountable to the people whereas the RBI is not. Government_and_RBI (Download the full text in PDF format) (This article was originally…
Emerging Asia, analysts argue, is all wrapped up in debt. For some time now they have warned about the dangers involved in the rising volume of private debt—both corporate and household—in Asia, as a result of a reversal of the…
The BJP under Narendra Modi has been by and large favoured by fortune. This is reflected not just in the fact that it managed to win 52 per cent (282) of the seats with just 31 per cent of the…
