Category Archives: Government

United States: Comment On The 2013 State Of The Union

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa President Obama delivered his State of the Union address to the joint session of the United States Congress on February 12, 2013. He laid out his policy agenda for his second term in office … Continue reading

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India: The Taxation Of Underreported Incomes

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Underreported income, or ‘black money‘ as it is commonly known in India, defined arithmetically as the difference between the true income from both legal and illegal activities and the income reported to tax … 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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James Eagan Holmes, 24

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Source: NBC News on Twitter, From the Arapahoe County, CO Sheriff’s Office/KUSA) Mr. Holmes had been a shy, awkward boy who once seemed bound for big things. He was a science student from … Continue reading

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The English Language For The United States Of America

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa ‘English is a kind language,’ it has been said, and Hinduism a kind religion, for kindness is an essential aspect of longevity. The determinant of the length of life of a language or … Continue reading

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Policy Lessons For The Cognoscenti

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Giving lessons to world leaders on matters of economic policy was the bailiwick of John Maynard Keynes in the last century. He was a wealthy upper class Englishman, bi-sexual and similar to Elton … Continue reading

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Fireside Chat About Spectrum Auctions

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa I The Firing of Benjamin Bernanke The rumor is in the air in Washington that Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke is entering electoral politics. That he wants to, some day, run for Congress … Continue reading

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Apple Can Buy Facebook To Counter Bernanke and Obama

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Facebook, riding the coat tails of Zynga, the online game developer, is going public. Many Americans scratched their heads during the Clinton administration when Sun and Oracle had lobbied Washington to sue Microsoft … 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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Simplicity As Parsimony: The Breakdown of Complexity From Physics To Politics

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The most exciting thing that happened to science is complexity theory, as extraordinarily articulated by James Gleick in his book “Chaos” describing the ruminations of Brian Arthur out of which the Santa Fe … Continue reading

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