Vivek Kaul

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Profits for corporates, taxes for individuals

The income tax system, which needs to be fair before anything else, now favours corporations over individuals.

10 February 2024, 21:54 IST

Profits for corporates, taxes for individuals

10 February 2024, 21:54 IST

Everybody loves a good story, don’t let data spoil it

As India marches toward becoming a $30 trillion, $40 trillion, $60 trillion economy, the stock market rises higher and higher, and real estate prices go way beyond what even the middle class can afford, people aren’t really interested in the devil in the detail. It hampers the stories that they are being told and the stories that, in turn, they are telling themselves.

13 January 2024, 22:32 IST

Everybody loves a good story, don’t let data spoil it

13 January 2024, 22:32 IST

Can newer services help create more jobs, prosperity for India?

Countries that grew at a fast pace after WWII have done so by expanding their manufacturing base and producing goods for the rich countries of North America and Europe.

16 December 2023, 20:06 IST

Can newer services help create more jobs, prosperity for India?

16 December 2023, 20:06 IST

Why free rations don’t dent the India growth story

Outside the Eco-Chamber

18 November 2023, 20:22 IST

Why free rations don’t dent the India growth story

18 November 2023, 20:22 IST

Why stock prices are holding up despite FIIs selling

Outside the Eco-Chamber

21 October 2023, 19:07 IST

Why stock prices are holding up despite FIIs selling

21 October 2023, 19:07 IST

Food inflation is painful for most, don’t ridicule them

In three out of the last four financial years, food inflation has been higher than 6.6 per cent.

26 August 2023, 20:10 IST

Food inflation is painful for most, don’t ridicule them

26 August 2023, 20:10 IST

Bad loans are first written-off, then waived

Outside the Eco-Chamber

29 July 2023, 21:26 IST

Bad loans are first written-off, then waived

29 July 2023, 21:26 IST

Five lessons from the unravelling of Byju’s

Byju’s is one of the best examples of what’s going wrong with Indian start-ups in general and a few unicorns in particular.

03 July 2023, 11:35 IST

Five lessons from the unravelling of Byju’s

03 July 2023, 11:35 IST

Sorry, cash isn’t going away anytime soon

It’s too early to conclude that the rise of digital payments has led to cash in the financial system coming down

03 June 2023, 23:40 IST

Sorry, cash isn’t going away anytime soon

03 June 2023, 23:40 IST

Investors didn’t buy Adani’s ‘attack on India’ story

The thing to recognise here is that Hindenburg Research is basically a short-seller, and it did not hide its intentions of being just that at any point of time

09 April 2023, 09:28 IST

Investors didn’t buy Adani’s ‘attack on India’ story

09 April 2023, 09:28 IST