Debashis Basu

A Chartered Accountant with 35 years of experience as a journalist and columnist and the author of several business books, Mr Basu has worked with The Times of India, Business World, Business India, Business Today, Financial Express and has written columns for Business Standard and The Economic Times. He has...

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India’s new labour codes—four sweeping laws meant to replace 29 fusty statutes—promise to...
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India’s economy continues to post headline numbers that would make most finance ministers...
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America’s stock market, unconcerned by trade tensions or fiscal strain, sits near a record high....
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Last week, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt were honoured with The Sveriges Riksbank...
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For decades, economists constantly lamented that we are spending too much on revenue expenditure...
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On 19th September, the US president Donald Trump dropped a new bombshell. He ordered that all...
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India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting on 3rd September unveiled what was billed...
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On 15th August, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, used his Independence day address to...
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Last week, US President Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on select Indian exports, and soon...
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Last month, the regulators had caught Jane Street, a high-frequency trading firm, allegedly...
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Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) last week issued a damning...
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First, it was shadow banning of exports of rare earths, which panicked Indian electric vehicle...
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On 6th June, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) surprised the markets, slicing the repo rate by...
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Rajiv Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto, sounded the alarm last week: if China were to restrict...
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Last week, US president Donald Trump fired a salvo against Apple’s Tim Cook—demanding that...
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When US president Donald Trump detonated a trade bomb on 2nd April, with levies set to bite from...
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Policymakers and pundits in Delhi have been quick to declare the US-China trade war a golden...
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Last week, Donald Trump set the global trading system ablaze by imposing massive additional...
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Globally, share buybacks are an extremely popular mechanism for companies to return capital to...
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Donald Trump was known to be unpredictable. But what he has unleashed since he became US...
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