Thursday, December 11, 2025
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-the-us-push-oil-to-usd-250-a-barrel-r-n-bhaskar/1314064 The US roils the oil markets again — By RN Bhaskar | Jul 12, 2018 07:31 am Last week, Artem Avinov, leading analyst with TeleTrade, predicted that oil prices could jump to $250 per barrel if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/1906450/column-policy-watch-p-notes-the-big-money-laundering-machine P-notes: The big money laundering machine Monday, Oct 21, 2013, 9:54 IST | Agency: DNA On August 1, 2013, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) instructed foreign institutional investors (FIIs) which were seeking to hedge forex exposure relating to participatory notes...
R N Bhaskar 6 April 2015 Had the government really been serious about providing affordable housing for the economically weaker sections (EWS) of society, all it had to do was to look at what Iran has done. If it thought that...
R N Bhaskar 6 July 2015 For almost four decades since India’s independence, Germany saw immense opportunity in this country.  True, there were hurdles.  Managing the government wasn’t easy.  Especially when many of the big businesses that Germany was interested in...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/does-the-budget-not-care-for-human-capital/1453862 Interim Budget and its indifference to human capital RN Bhaskar February 7, 2019 At a time when election fever is at its peak, it is not surprising to see the tide run out. That is when you embarrassingly discover who...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-the-lure-of-online-groceries-is-growing-stronger-and-stronger Online groceries to witness booming times ahead RN Bhaskar – 16 April 2020 The business of online groceries has been growing at 67% year on year. There are several factors that have propelled this growth.  First, India as a consumption economy. Second,...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/king-coals-rise-decline-and-eventual-fall-r-n-bhaskar/912190 King Coal is rapidly losing market relevance Few thought this would ever happen. In fact, if you plot a chart of coal demand in the UK for the period 1860 till 2020 (http://about.bnef.com/presentations/liebreich-state-of-the-industry-keynote-bnef-summit-2016/  also see chart), the image tells you...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/r-n-bhaskar-banks-in-a-web-of-student-loans-and-courts/751626 Banks in a web of student loans and courts — By RN Bhaskar | Jan 07, 2016 02:20 am Last month, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court ruled that an educational-loan cannot be rejected merely on the grounds that the...
R N Bhaskar February 24, 2014 India's policymakers love to talk about 'national interest'. They talk of it when they do not want to part with information. They say that it would jeopardise 'national interest'. They love to curb individual freedoms,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-for-the-government-1-dont-meddle-with-the-dairy-sector Agenda for the government – #1. Dairy farming is the lifeblood of rural India RN Bhaskar (The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/05/agenda-for-the-government-2021-series/) This article has two recommendations. The first is that the health minister needs to be replaced.  He promotes neither...