Category: economy

  • Demand and Supply and the flip-smart syndrome.

    Some technologies are designed to fail you, so that you will want more and more of them, and you will be prepared to pay higher prices. Laptops and girlfriends come to mind. Lets just discuss the laptops. I originally intended the wrote up as a two line joke, which are not allowed in our civilized…

  • Airplanes are cheaper modes of communication than auto-rikshaw.

    Per km fare of a typical airfare now a days could be Rs 3. That for an auto Rs 14. If you were to (only hypothetically: spherical cow) continue to travel via auto for 1500 kms, you would spend far more for the fare this way, than for an airplane, in that proportion, apart from…

  • MDASHF, how is it doing online.

    All in all, safely, only 2013 saw 50,000 people who followed and endorsed my online presence or who accessed my website contents. (since you can like a page once only using your f-b id and since website visits checks unique IP address, this is a unique individual stats, that is , most precise count of…

  • Simple Rules of Economics/Capital.

    A fantastic bilingual website from the state of Odisha. English and Odia. Very informative especially for entrepreneurs as the name of website speaks of: bepara.com, bepara (byapar) is Odia for transactions/business. Here is a fantastic article written in Odia which I am translating partly to English. I am also appending the article as-it-is in Odia…

  • Outsourcing, a resilient valiance or mistake of capitalism!

    The super layers of Asians or Indians, that actually are famous or rich in USA are the kind that actually lived in advanced countries for several decades. You hardly see graduate students driving BMW. But the American folks have a spendthrift attitude as well. Of-course its none of my problem, and to much extent I…