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Downtrend in metals unlikely to ease
Price trends in non-precious metals for instance, are driven largely by global supply and demand
Sreenivasan Jain: Memo to Rahul - It's 2014, not 2004
The Congress vice-president needs to speak from a script more attuned to today's realities because his attempts to position himself as the perennial outsider would have held greater resonance 10 years
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: The readership ruckus
The controversies over the latest IRS point to obvious glitches in the methodology but that doesn't mean the survey should be junked
A K Bhattacharya: A three-point test for UPA I & II
It seems the UPA's 10 years saw little tax reform, a clear deviation from the path of fiscal discipline and no clear strategy to prudently manage the government's expenditure
Abheek Barua: A menu of choices
The author explains why it matters for economic policy who wins the 2014 election
In idle gear
At the Auto Expo, an industry ripe for change
Reforming entitlements
Why UPA's safety nets are not easy to roll back
Govindraj Ethiraj: Has Aadhaar lost its foundation?
The decision to discontinue paying cooking gas subsidies in Aadhaar-linked bank accounts is a big blow to the UIDAI programme. But does it imply that the 'portable' and 'dynamic' identity system is hi
Alokananda Chakraborty: 3 reasons to drop that celeb
Why splurge on that celebrity ambassador when you can reap much more from the 'pass-around' power of everyday people?
Ajai Shukla: Does the military threaten democracy?
An insecure political class, with little knowledge of the military, has unquestioningly internalised the fear that a powerful tri-service chief would threaten democracy
Martin Feldstein: The future of American growth
Far from being close to decline, the US is likely to keep on getting richer
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Rajiv Shastri: Why India's subsidies are inflationary
Instead of rationalising the harmful ones, policymakers compensate with more subsidies, each with its own unintended consequences
Abheek Barua: After taper, the deluge?
It seems the Fed will focus on the US' dynamics and won't be swayed by the collateral damage that its actions cause in emerging markets
Debashis Basu: Hail the PPP banking model!
The inefficient public sector with higher costs offers a lobbying cover for the entire sector, which confers even greater benefits on the private sector
Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng: China's risky credit boom
China needs to unify its official and shadow interest rates without scuttling growth
A complex legacy
How will Ben Bernanke be judged by historians?
India's failing regulators
Culture of tolerating low standards needs to end