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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been exactly five long years since I joined for my EMIB (Executive Masters in International business) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi! I joined it on 9th August 2004. Time flies! But can say for sure that this degree has been my best investment made on education till date. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=1007&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berkshire Hathaway Annual report 2008 / a must read</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2008ar/2008ar.pdf
You can&#8217;t be mistaken when you are reading from the greatest punters in the Financial space &#8211; Warren Buffett. The Chairman&#8217;s letter to shareholders did not dissappoint me. It was filled with the usual interesting titbits on his insurance ops and business, the concept of insurance &#8216;float&#8217;, his profit margins, the stake he took in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=809&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has the retail bubble in India burst?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had blogged about retail opportunities in India about an year and a half ago here - http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/retail-opportunities-in-india/
It was not even an year ago that we witnessed almost every large corporate worth their salt open up stores in the name of &#8220;retail&#8221; looking for every opportunity to outwit and throw out your neighbourhood &#8220;kirana store&#8221;.
But, less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=797&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Satyam fiasco &#8211; Ramalinga Raju&#8217;s misadventures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for not blogging about this earlier. I did not have access to broadband Internet at my home for the last 3 days and was working off my Blackberry for office related tasks.
While the economic and financial implications have been written about far and wide and everyone is busy reading the tea leaves, what are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=681&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I crazy about Wall Street/US monetary policies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simply because, it has a huge impact - no matter where you are in this world!
What happens out there impacts every single country in this world. It impacts you you and you. It impacts the decision making we make on our jobs etc. It impacts our local domestic economy. No matter how much we claim of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=518&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The age of turbulence &#8211; Alan Greenspan&#8217;s memoir</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/the-age-of-turbulence-alan-greenspans-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.com/Age-Turbulence-Adventures-New-World/dp/1594201315
I am going to start reading up this book starting next week once I am done with &#8216;The Snowball &#8211; Warren Buffett and the business of life&#8217;.
While critics are holding Greenspan responsible for advocating ARM&#8217;s way back in his testimony to Congress in 2004 and his keeping of interest rates low from the days of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=514&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Snowball &#8211; Warren Buffett and the business of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553805096
I bought this book from Strand book stall at Manipal chambers, Bangalore today. This book was just released 2 days ago on the 28th September 2008 and lo and behold it&#8217;s already in circulation in India &#8211; that is cool.
I am a self proclaimed Warren Buffett protege and fan since I first read his books [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=512&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CITIGROUP takes over Wachovia banking operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tumble continues. The Fed&#8217;s $250 billion immediate injection to buy toxic assets of troubled financial institutions, followed by the $100 billion based on President&#8217;s approval followed by another $350 billion subject to approval of Congress did not help.
Wachovia (NYSE: WB) is the latest in the casuality list with a $2 billion takeover by CITIGROUP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=508&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wachovia is in trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Wachovia is going to be the next casuality to get acquired. Potential suitors include Citigroup (NYSE:C), Wells Fargo among others.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27bank.html?hp
The $ 700 billion bailout is taking time but taking its casualities as well.
Going forward &#8211; I will blog more about the correlation between this credit crunch and a more economics, freakonomics type [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=505&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WaMu goes to JPMChase</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Mutual is the largest bank failure in US history. It went up for grabs yesterday as JPMorgan Chase &#38; Co. quickly acquired it for $ 1.9 billion.
This continues the series of fallouts of companies since last week when Lehman announced bankruptcy and Merrill got acquired by Bank of America.
How did JPMorgan stay clear of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=496&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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