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.
Category Archives: Economics
Expected June 2013 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Statement
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Labor market conditions have shown some improvement in recent months, on … Continue reading
Stimulus, Recovery And The Markets
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Text book economics and finance say financial markets rise and fall with the economy: when gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate slows, financial market indices drop, and when GDP rises, the indices also … Continue reading
How Many Jobs Can McKinsey’s 12 Technologies Create?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa McKinsey & Company’s research arm McKinsey Global Institute has produced a report about the 12 most feasible technologies with the most economic impact. The criteria for technology selection are pragmatic but McKinsey’s economic … Continue reading
Parsing Fedspeak On QE3
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa World financial markets gyrated after the recent testimony of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. They did not like what they heard: the Fed could slow QE3 or the purchases of long-dated Treasury Securities and … Continue reading
Is This The Economic Recovery We Want?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Wall Street, according to a Bloomberg survey, likes Ben Bernanke. Why would it not? The punishment the Street got for the financial crisis has been a flood of money. The nation’s financiers have … Continue reading
Reinhart And Rogoff v. Bernanke
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa “The nation’s unemployment rate would probably be nearly a point lower, roughly 6.5 percent, and economic growth almost two points higher this year if Washington had not cut spending and raised taxes as … Continue reading
A Strange Kind Of Goldilocks
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa US economy is in goldilocks. The three years since 2009 have seen three programs of Quantitative Easing (QE) and each of the years 2010, 2011, and 2012 has logged an annual real growth … Continue reading
Federal Reserve’s Inflation Target And Post-Crisis Recovery
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Federal Reserve is mismanaging the economic recovery. Comparing past recoveries with the current episode, The Wall Street Journal in an opinion article titled Growth Deficit writes that during previous recoveries the US … Continue reading
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet: The Financial Crises Yet To Come
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In a second New York Times article Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (RR) have gracefully acknowledged their error and defended themselves from their critics. At issue was their empirical analysis relating debt and … Continue reading
Federal Reserve Selectively Releases Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Meeting Minutes Early
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Financial Times reported that the Federal Reserve’s Special Assistant to the Board Members, a Mr Brian Gross, has accidentally released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) March meeting a day … Continue reading
