Unpopular investing
Investment should be about making good long term returns. It’s not about winning a popularity contest.
Category: Economics
Ajit Agarkar channels his inner economist
In this blog, I present the recent team selection through 3 different ideas.
Everyday Opportunity costs
Opportunity cost is one of my favorite ideas. In this blog, I am sharing some everyday examples of opportunity costs.
Economics for the irrational man
Classical Economics assumes humans make decisions rationally. But in reality we are all messed up. Behavioral Economics explains our biases and why/how we make irrational decisions all the time.
Loss cutting
In investing as in life, occasionally things will not go as per our plan. What should we then do? Cut our losses and move on, no matter how hard it is. This is what lucky people do.
Conservative Banker
This is a blog on the incentives of a conservative banker and why they say No a lot more than they say Yes.
Sarala’s tale
This is a small story of my cook Sarala and her journey towards home ownership and Financial Inclusion.
Adversity to Opportunity
This blog explains why the poor end up paying more for credit. It also provides some shining examples of some entrepreneurs who have converted adversity into opportunity.
On Fairness
This blog is about why we shouldn’t expect fairness.
Everyone wins with Akshayakalpa
A somewhat detailed account of Social Investing and the business model of Akshayakalpa’s organic dairy.
Interest upon Interest 