Lehman Crisis

No Lehman moment for India but the NBFC show is over; way clear for large banks to make a killing

With high yields and a crisis of confidence hitting NBFCs, the big opportunity will arise for banks in the mortgage market.

IITs wrong in banning startups; protectionism has no place in free economy

Every 8-10 years, one sector booms and makes a beeline to IITs and other elite institutions with attractive job offers. The educational institutions need to remember that risk is part and parcel of any job

Why Uncle Sam should also be suing himself, not just S&P

The US government and SEC were key actors in creating a conflict of interest for rating agencies which resulted in several sub-prime loans being rated AAA

'World is trapped in low growth; there is no magic cure'

Do the world's economic managers know what they are doing? And will their medicine - of easy money - really work? Satyajit Das has his doubts.

Shades of post-Lehman crisis? You are not far off the mark

Policymakers from Sydney to Tokyo to Seoul stepped up efforts to calm jittery investors.What also checked the bloodbath, at least temporarily, are rumours of emergency measures from the Fed at the upcoming meeting on Tuesday.