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: North America and Caribbean
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
Benghazi Emails
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The White House released 100 pages of emails pertaining to talking points preparation for members of Congress about the Benghazi attacks. Ambassador J Christopher Stevens was determined to have most likely died of … 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
How And Why Stocks Are Being Stoked By The Fed
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Rise in equity prices in US on lower than normal trading volumes and flight from Europe and Japan to the safety of the relatively higher yielding US bond markets, US index funds and … Continue reading
The Geopolitics Of US Debt
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Bloomberg published an article about a raging debate among economists in the context of US budget, debt ceiling and the rising indebtedness, currently about $17 trillion, of the United States. While it is … Continue reading
United States: Comment On The March 20 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Statement
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In this article we reiterate our case for industrial policy during periods when structural unemployment is high as now. We had published a seminal technical paper in these pages on April 12, 2012 … Continue reading
Manufactured Crises And Change
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa President Obama has denounced brinkmanship in Washington. He does not think manufacturing crises to change the way of things is wise. He is correct because he knows that his presidency is an accidental … Continue reading
