Best of BS Opinion: LIC disinvestment, inflation dilemma, and more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

Our first edit says listing should give LIC’s investors a good handle on where the insurer is putting in its money. The second edit talks of the sad way in which the National Stock Exchange was run.

Gurbachan Singh: Instead of mere disinvestment, it is important to privatise LIC, and use the sale proceeds for expanding and improving basic public services

Akash Prakash: The inflation data in the US and globally continues to deteriorate and worry investors.

Mahesh Vyas: Employment did not expand to absorb the unemployed in January. On the contrary, it shrank by 3.3 million.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
 

To argue that banning cryptocurrencies would stunt the absorption of blockchain technology is akin to saying banning nuclear weapons would hurt nuclear physics as a discipline.

 

RBI Deputy Governor Rabi Sankar