Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa
Chandra Tamirisa is a Global Sustainability Consultant, Entrepreneur, and Government Relations professional, and the Owner, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Transformations LLC, Common Era LLC and Samskruti, Washington, D.C-based global consulting, entrepreneurhsip and government relations firms specializing in advising stakeholders in the political, economic, business and engineering aspects of sustainable global development and integration. He is a skilled adviser on policy, strategy and engineering. His unique interdisciplinary expertise in politics, economics, management and engineering draws on his diverse and advanced educational background and experience in both the private and public sectors to enable him to provide thorough, comprehensive and independent strategic issue analyses and creative policy solutions to policy problems faced by government and business leaders in foreign policy, national security policy, macroeconomic policy and regulatory policy.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Tire Pressure Gauges Then and Jobs Now?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Much had been said simplistically in the 2008 election campaign. John McCain’s energy policy was ‘drill baby drill’. Barack Obama’s response was ‘check your tire pressure’. I remember it all too well, having signed … Continue reading
The Coming Generational Shift
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa With the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Acts in 1965, 100 years of post-Civil War tumult had been consummated in the law of the land to complete … Continue reading
The Road Ahead for the Fed
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Both the reasoned debate and the clamor over the re-confirmation of the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke are now settling down. The focus is quite appropriately shifting to the work of the Fed. As the … Continue reading
The Politics of the American Economic Outlook
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa ‘The lost decade’ was the phrase used by the President of the United States to describe the Bush years for the average American. But he hasn’t seen nothin’ yet. That decade may be yet … Continue reading
Is the Economy Out of the Woods Yet?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The latest gross domestic product (GDP) data release for the final three months of 2009 by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is both encouraging and tentative despite the large positive difference of about … Continue reading
Public-Private Partnership?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The United States Congress voted earlier in the day, on the day after the President’s State of the Union address, as expected because it was a Hobson’s Choice, to raise the national debt ceiling … Continue reading
The State of the Union: A Reply to POTUS
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The President of the United States has had a difficult year. And it showed yesterday, albeit in a masterful speech which appeared to want to turn the critique into an opportunity for genuine change. … Continue reading
The Frontier Beckons
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The known world is all that exists. We know it all. Every nook and cranny on the planet, both above and below the surface, can be seen from an iPhone in the palm of … Continue reading
Atonement
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The misplaced presidential priority was the campaign promise to balance the Reagan-Bush budget deficit for which reason the country had sold out to China and neglected preparing for the time when oil prices may … Continue reading
Geese and Gander: Davos, Volcker Rule and Consumer Credit
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Mechanical engineers seem to have a way with many things. For one there was the young Nigerian bomber recently. The other is of course the more well-known World Economic Forum (WEF) which was also … Continue reading
