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Wednesday Morning Reads

A few interesting items for your reading pleasure:

  • Drugging the drugged! Fed: Low rates for two more years (CNN Money)
  • Wow! Investors flee to gold (CNN Money)
  • Hmm. Now What? (The Daily Reckoning)
  • Yeah! Jim Rogers: Bernanke and Geithner are sending us to “fiscal Armageddon” (Newsmax)
  • Nice. Indian stocks fare better than most in global rout (Mint)
  • Oops! A world out of options (Mint)
  • Hmm. Panic measures will ruin the Bric recovery (Financial Times)
  • Really? India feels it deserves a better credit rating (The Financial Express)

What are you reading?

Here’s Why Your Stocks Are in Such a Mess


The current financial crisis that has led to investors losing tons of money is an example of financial education being overridden by a swamp of overconfidence, arrogance, and a lack of common sense.

The culprits – banks, financial institutions, governments, and policymakers. In general, these ‘intelligent’ people lacked the humility to realize the danger of what they were doing.

The victims – Small investors, retirees, widows, you.

The lessons learnt – None! As they say, ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’.

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Tuesday Morning Crisis Reads

A few interesting items for your reading pleasure:

What are you reading?

How to Keep Your Head in a World Gone Mad

“The whole world is mad. Stocks will be dropping 30 percent, then rallying 20 percent, and dropping another 30 percent – that’s going to be the pattern. And whoever can’t live with that shouldn’t be buying equities at all.”

These are the words of noted investment guru Marc Faber, the author of The Gloom Boom & Doom Report.

Seeing the way stock markets are reacting these days, it does seem that the world has indeed gone mad.

But as Faber says, if you can’t live with the current uncertainty and volatility in the stock markets, you must not be buying stocks at all.
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Monday Morning Reading List

A few interesting items for your reading pleasure:

  • Doom! 2011 could be worse for India as US recession looms large (The Economic Times)
  • Hmm. Rating downgrade: Did S&P get it right? (CNN Money)
  • Daring! Buffett Bet $3.6 Billion on Stocks in Quarter Before Rout, Most Since 2008 (Bloomberg)
  • Nice read. Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 1 (Bloomberg)
  • Funny! AAA to AA+: Here come the battery jokes! (Bloomberg)
  • You know it! Do Indian banks exist for their customers? (Mint)
  • Not news. US no longer stable, reliable country: Paul Krugman (The Economic Times)

What are you reading?

Sunday Afternoon Reading List

A few interesting items for your reading pleasure:

  • Aha! Dr. Doom Marc Faber expects a huge rally in stocks (The Daily Crux)
  • Politician-speak. Our markets can withstand negative sentiments affecting outside world: Pranab (Times of India)
  • Oh really? PMO can’t be held responsible for 2G irregularities: Montek (Mint)
  • Nice read. Pressing All the Buttons for a Panic Attack (The New York Times)
  • Reality bites. The Debt Supercycle (Daily Reckoning)
  • Funny! When the going gets tough (Mint)
  • Hmm. 10 reasons to hate Google (CNN Money)

What are you reading?

Your Wealth in Crisis: What To Do?

We wrote last week that the global financial markets were standing on the brink of a steep cliff, with the US economy staring at a possible default.

Anyways, while the US has averted a default (at least as of now), the markets indeed jumped off the cliff, with stocks in the US leading the free-fall.

In fact, this week was the worst for the US markets since the 2008 crisis. The Indian markets also had their worst week since the crisis. The Sensex fell by almost 900 points during the week, with almost 45% of these losses coming on Friday (5th August) alone.


Note: Country names represent their respective stock market indices; Source: Yahoo Finance

Yes, dear reader, this crisis is for real. We, at Safal Niveshak, have been wondering when the markets would wake up to the reality of the debt crisis in the western world.

Now is the time!
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You Need Financial Education to Make Money from Stocks. Lie, Lie, Lie!

If you have been made to believe that you need to be financially educated to make money from stock markets, see this…


If financial education was what was required to make money from stocks, the stock market experts would’ve become rich by investing their own money and not selling worthless stock advice to gullible small investors.

But it doesn’t happen that way.
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Friday Morning Reading List

A few interesting items for your reading pleasure:

  • Good! Infra bonds’ lock-in period to be halved (Mint)
  • Nothing new. India’s Inflation Rate Is Far Above the Threshold Level (Bloomberg)
  • Oops! Ignore the debt ceiling debate…The real crisis is yet to come (Bull Source)
  • Must read. Dan Ariely on Behavioural Economics (The Browser)
  • Owe dear! World Debt Guide (Economist)
  • Gone with the wind! Govt approves Rs1,200 crore equity infusion in Air India (Mint)
  • Nice read. A Good Debtor (Daily Reckoning)
  • Great! You can file complaints with Sebi online (Mint)
  • Law of averages? The Power Shift (Economist)
  • Hmmm. Facebook Comes Before Tap Water as India’s Poor Get Smartphones‎ (Bloomberg)

What are you reading?