Billionaire population growth globally is at an all-time high. Whilst growing wealth inequality isn’t particularly great for society, many of the newly minted billionaires earned their stripes. Indeed, The Economist published an interesting piece on how for the first time, majority of billionaires have neither inherited their riches nor earned them primarily due to cronyism. […]
Ben Thompson writes a very popular blog on the business of technology called Stratechery. It is a go to blog for tech investors and tech entrepreneurs alike. Given tech is increasingly a part of all life around us, we would recommend the blog even if you don’t belong to either of those categories. Here, Patrick […]
For a generation, “Made in China” was a story about scale. The country became the factory of the world by making ordinary goods in volumes, and at a cost, that no rival could come close to matching. Then it ran the same playbook on a piece of genuinely advanced technology — the electric car — […]
Exactly a decade ago, we published the #1 Business Bestseller, ‘The Unusual Billionaires’. Out of the 7 companies profiled in the book, 6 have beaten the broader stockmarket in the intervening decade. Now, in our new book, ‘The Art of Enduring: How Great Companies Turn Crisis into Opportunity’, we decode the success of 5 more […]
: In Breakpoint we showed that in India, finishing school and going to work beats finishing college and looking for work. Graduate unemployment is near 30% while unemployment among Indians who cannot read or write is 3%. That was true before generative AI arrived at scale, however it is truer now. Stanford’s payroll study finds […]
Saving for retirement used to be simple. Save through your working years, stop at 60, and live off the corpus. Three forces are now breaking that maths: People are living much longer, so the same corpus has to stretch across more years. The cost of living is rising much faster than the official number suggests […]
Over the past year we have heard from our friends, relatives and clients in America a narrative which is decades old (namely, anti-Indian racism in USA) but now interwoven with a new layer (namely, a splintering in the Indian community’s response to this racism with some Hindus claiming that their battle against racism does not […]
The rapid rise of the South Korean economy to rich world status is a case study in universities across the world. But not too long ago, the country had to be bailed out by IMF after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, thanks to excessive foreign debt by its corporates amidst a plunging currency. This article […]
China’s status as ‘the factory to the world’ is credited to one man’s actions – Zhu Rongji, the fifth premier of the People’s Republic of China, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 97. He is widely regarded in and more notably outside China as a key architect of China’s economic reforms. […]
The classic sign of froth in a bull market has always been crazy fantasies being marketed as realistic corporate aspirations of visionary entrepreneurs. Coming in the wake of SpaceX’s IPO in June 2026, this long read in Noema is an antidote to the madness that has gripped some people. American entrepreneurs aim to colonise Mars […]
Semiconductor stocks took a beating last month due to concerns that spending on datacentres may not yield as much as envisaged coupled with rising credit to fund that capex. In response to that, Jensen Haung, the CEO of Nvidia last week announced that he is tying up with the world’s largest private equity and private […]
Thanks to Christopher Nolan, there is a renewed global interest in Greek mythology. At the same time, rising geopolitical conflicts around the world are driving a renewed interest in Greek history. Or more specifically, a Greek historian. Thucydides, who chronicled the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, has lately been summoned to every op-ed straining […]
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