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Vivek Kaul

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ARTICLES BY VIVEK KAUL

Mutual funds tried to cash in by launching new schemes around which narratives had been built. (FIIs).

Vivek Kaul: The New Year is teaching retail investors old lessons

4 min read . 21 Jan 2025

Bryan Adams performing in Abu Dhabi.

Vivek Kaul: Ravichandran Ashwin and the winter of ’24 in the summer of ’69

13 min read . 04 Jan 2025

There are multiple factors that will hold back the government from cutting taxes.

Vivek Kaul: The Union budget should focus on reviving private consumption

4 min read . 01 Jan 2025

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

Vivek Kaul: Warren Buffett and the mediocrity of investing

8 min read . 28 Dec 2024

Essentially, while other countries have to earn dollars in order to pay for anything priced in the US currency, the US has the option of simply printing them.

Vivek Kaul: Trump’s tariffs won’t kill the dollar’s exorbitant privilege

4 min read . 24 Dec 2024

Last year, I completed 98 books. This year, I am likely to end up closer to 90.

Vivek Kaul: The best books I read in 2024

10 min read . 18 Dec 2024

A central bank cannot simultaneously achieve three objectives: Free international capital movement, a fixed exchange rate and an independent monetary policy. It can only choose two.

Vivek Kaul: RBI’s new governor will have to confront a tricky old trilemma

4 min read . 17 Dec 2024

Bob Dylan performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 13 November.

Vivek Kaul: Bob Dylan and a story I won’t be telling my grandchildren

13 min read . 11 Dec 2024

Market analysts and economists have an incentive to echo each other as they they don’t want to be wrong when the majority gets it right.

Vivek Kaul: India’s GDP growth slump holds lessons in forecasting

4 min read . 10 Dec 2024

The two most expensive players, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer, were sold on the first day of the auction almost as soon as it started.

Vivek Kaul: Seven lessons in economics from the IPL auction

16 min read . 04 Dec 2024

The political success of cash transfer schemes is yet another step that India has taken in moving towards a universal basic income in a disguised way. (Mint)

Vivek Kaul: Cash transfer politics impacts not just ballots but also budgets

4 min read . 03 Dec 2024

The problem created by social media is not a lack of attention but too much of it on one particular thing, leaving less time for other things.

Vivek Kaul: The economics of attention deficit

8 min read . 27 Nov 2024

The simplest solution to protect oneself from such frauds is to not take calls from unknown numbers.

Vivek Kaul: Financial frauds evolve fast but it’s not as if we’re helpless

4 min read . 26 Nov 2024

Tools you need for the Seinfeld Strategy to work: A wall calendar and a red market. (AI-generated image)

Vivek Kaul: The Seinfeld Strategy—or why MS Dhoni is still the boss

10 min read . 20 Nov 2024

Stock markets are really not anywhere as predictable as they are made out to be.

Why are stock market ‘experts’ reluctant to accept uncertainty?

4 min read . 19 Nov 2024

Financial analysis, cricket commentary and election forecasts thrive on the innate human need to make quick sense of the happenings around them, fuelling demand for quick explanations and incentivising a market for lying. (AI-generated representative image)

Vivek Kaul: The market for lies

12 min read . 13 Nov 2024

While FIIs sold quite a bit in 2022, they bought a lot in 2023 and have barely bought in 2024.

Vivek Kaul: Will monthly SIP investors in Indian stocks keep calm and carry on?

4 min read . 12 Nov 2024

Anyone tracking the Indian economy should be worried about the increase in the number of people working in agriculture. (AFP)

Vivek Kaul: Why the stockmarket wallahs are suddenly worried about the economy

10 min read . 06 Nov 2024

When RBI maintains interest rates at high levels, it discourages banks from lending money at a fast pace.

Why hasn’t RBI cut policy rates despite its lack of control over food inflation?

4 min read . 05 Nov 2024

Gold bugs have come out of the woodwork and are buying gold because they believe the world now is a much more unsafe place—inflating the price of the yellow metal in the process.

Gold, Lindy effect, Warren Buffett, and why ignorance is not bliss

9 min read . 30 Oct 2024