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Eye on the game

When I visited Twitch, the most striking part was the sheer number of people swarming on the sidelines, watching other people play

Seeking a middle ground

Tea with BS: Ashish Goel

One block at a time

A compromised GST

Multiple, progressive rates defy fiscal logic

Subir Roy: Why merge public sector banks?

Merger is about the only solution that the government seems to be capable of thinking up in seeking to get the PSBs into some degree of health

Does Donald Trump resemble Hitler?

Trump's outbursts remind you not of the Nazi dictator, but of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff - two other Germans from history

The maze between promoters and foreign vehicles

The value of assets held through P-notes, Rs 2.16 lakh crore, seems small in relation to the overall market capitalisation (around Rs 100 lakh crore on the BSE) and assets held by foreign portfolio in

BRICS without substance

Grouping risks relevance as it fails to conclude significant pacts

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Books as samosas and pakoras

Specifically, let me ask: Has the definition of a book changed? Is it the same as what it used to be about a decade ago?

Kenneth Rogoff: Is the US Fed playing politics?

Central bankers have of course been known to help incumbents before elections, by allowing inflation to drift up and keep employment booming

Ajay Shah: Eight principles for better regulators

Creating regulators was supposed to combat central planning, but India has often failed in this regard

Debashis Basu: Will Sebi's investment advisor norms work?

Sebi has just issued a discussion paper on tightening the role of investment advisors

A 'Note'-worthy fiasco

Samsung's failure can dent the industry's image

More than a slowdown

IT leaders must walk the talk on reinvention

Devangshu Datta: Confounding cross connections

Contradictions in Indian economic data mean that flatlining and joblessness exist side by side with signs of strong consumption

A K Bhattacharya: The dangers of exuberance

Income Declaration Scheme, 2016, didn't do as well as a similar scheme in 1997 and the government should avoid rolling out such schemes in the future

Ajay Srinivasan: Are negative interest rates the new normal?

Central banks can set rates low enough to stimulate an economy in recession, and raise them once a recovery gets underway

Mitali Saran: Birdiness, birditude, and birdicity

Turns out ornithology isn't for the birds

Gifts from a film fest

The former, a French-German-Belgian psychological thriller starring Isabelle Huppert, is based on the rape-without-tears bestseller Oh... by Philippe Djian