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  • Are central banks now the reluctant gatekeeper of the financial markets?

      I am not sure if most banks in the west want to finance productivity, efficiency and sustainable economic growth. And why do I say that? Well, let’s see, a very large part of the banks’ balance sheet seems to be allocated towards financial market transactions. Be it growth in lending to private equity firms,

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  • Reinventing money

    All aspects of human living are now tied to money. The measurement of productivity, success, wellbeing, influence, living standards, power and authority of a society are all interlinked with money. That is our modern society of today, is it not? But how is money created? Perhaps it is time for us to understand the basics

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  • State of the economy: Inducing a well managed recession is the need of the hour

    According to google, the searches for the word “inflation “ has surged this year globally. Consumers are googling for inflation more than at anytime since 2008. There is no doubt that inflation has become a real cause of pain for families across the world. For example, inflation is costing an average US household an extra

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  • The Collective Reality

    Our conscious experience is a part of reality. According to integrated information theory, consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality. In other words, it exists and is structured, specific, unified and definite.  Simply put, consciousness could very likely emerge when information moves between the subsystems of an overall system. So therefore, to be conscious, an entity has

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  • Pandemic – The unraveling of the society

    I guess we have all seen posts shared by friends, friends of friends on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media platforms about the pandemic. Some in complete denial about the virus claiming it to be a hoax, while others raising questions about the draconian restrictions imposed on the society by democratic governments across the world.

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  • Perhaps empowering greed is a way to power the green economy ?

    Some say a real market economy is the one that ensures greed is good. But on the other hand, there are those who argue that greed is in fact what is fuelling the rapid climate change. I am not sure if blame game is the right way forward. Also, I am not really sure if

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  • The collapse

    Nature is the largest investor in all of us, making it one of our key shareholders alongside us and our parents. And nature has equally invested itself in all what it has created, not just us humans. The collective value of what nature has created is immeasurable, and it’s economic value is also immense. Take

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  • A line of enquiry: Where do you think you belong ?

    Based on our current understanding of the big picture, the consensus view is that the story of modern humans journey started in Africa some 200,000 years ago. And modern humans most likely evolved from their common ancestor, Homo erectus, which literally means ‘upright man’ in Latin. Obviously Homo erectus is an extinct species of human that probably lived

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  • Inspired by Nature: Creating a sustainable economic system

    As the society and the economy gets more complex, the design fault lines are becoming increasing visible. Today, the global economy faces a number of serious challenges and issues. For example, while globalisation had a good run over the past 4 decades  benefitting a large percentage of the global population, but at the same time,

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  • The idea of money

    Productivity, success, wellbeing, influence, power and authority, and almost all aspects of human living is now tied to money. That is our modern society today. But the value of money gets derived from people. The idea that somehow money is store of value and people aren’t is based on flawed understanding of value. What is

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