Category Archives: Finance

United States: Economic Outlook

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Since I wrote this article BEA revised 2012 Quarter IV GDP to +0.4% on March 28th from -0.1% on January 30th. Still, effectively, within margin of statistical error, US economy is at a standstill.) … Continue reading

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Bogey For Wall Street At Jackson Hole: Markets Should Not Take Fed’s QE3 For Granted

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa 19m Transformations ‏@c_tamirisa @SquawkCNBC Creating smaller GLB banks is arbitrary given the size of the global economy. View conversation Reply Delete Favorite 20m Transformations ‏@c_tamirisa @SquawkCNBC Money supply growth is currently incommensurately high … Continue reading

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NASA’s One Billion Dollars For Commercial Space

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The purpose of this copyrighted proprietary Transformations, LLC document is two fold: (a) provision technical advisory services to the three (3) contractors on the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) contract and … Continue reading

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What Is The Meaning Of Free Trade?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa @ProSyn @CFR_org American Economic Review (AER), the most prestigious journal in economic science, in the February 2012 issue, its latest, has published a paper titled “New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?” by some … Continue reading

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Iran, Tesla Motors, Better Place And The Not So Coming Crash Of 2012

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Prologue: Edwin Drake, 1859 The question of the year is “how to make Americans and Europeans consume less oil, without drilling, digging and laying pipelines in a rush, and most importantly, without sliding … Continue reading

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The Facebook Money Bubble

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa @BillGates Debuting at $40/share if it trades at $400/share on $1 billion in net income, Facebook could be a trillion dollar company. Justified? @c_tamirisa, a sustainability entrepreneur (Me) via Twitter to Bill Gates, Co-Founder … Continue reading

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A Short Note On The US And Global Economic Outlooks

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released advanced data for the 4th quarter of 2011. US economy expanded in real terms by 2.8 per cent from the preceding quarter and by 1.7 per cent … Continue reading

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BINEA: Onward Beyond Kyoto

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa From Hyderabad, India: That debate produces change on the ground, albeit belated, is how democratic communicative action works. The Conference of Parties, COP 17, of the United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) … Continue reading

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Creating A New Derivative: The Market For Sovereign Credit Risk

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The annual American budget ritual between Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill is a sight to behold in the politics of imperial economic indiscipline. It is a no holds barred, guard-less rugby with no rules. … Continue reading

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The Lincoln Penny

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa When ponzi schemes such as Bernard Madoff’s are galore on Wall Street and when at least as much crisp cash is required out of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as is the … Continue reading

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