Wall Street, the movie (released in 1987) Oliver Stone’s powerful narrative on the sleazy shenanigans of the Wall Street money machine. Who will forget the famous three words from this movie’s lead character Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas) “Greed is good?” This phrase has echoed in the money halls of Wall Street and around […]
Now that Bernanke is confirmed for another term at the helm of the Fed, some pundits will have you believe that the stocks are safe. It doesn’t matter if he shares a major portion of the blame for current deflationary environment. Anyway, as a market contrarian I look for extreme sentiments on markets. Back in […]
A typical Desi’s choice of primary car in US is a Japanese model. Accord is at believed to be at the top of the list of most owned cars by Desis in US. Toyota Camry is perhaps a close second. You heard the news. Toyota is not only recalling 2.3 million vehicles, but entirely stopped […]
Apple’s iPad is here. తెలుగోళ్ళకి పండగే పండగ. iPod వచ్చినప్పుడు తెగ జోకులేసేవాడిని. “ఐ పాడా? అదేం పేరు, అయ్యో పాడు లాగ?” అని అడిగినట్లు, ఆపైన “పాడు అంటే పాడుద్ది అందుకే పెట్టారేమో ఆ పేరు…’ అని సరిపెట్టుకున్నట్లు. ఇప్పుడేమో iPad. I can imagine Telugu parents’ conversations with their kids. “ఏంటది? ఎయ్ పేడా?” Haa haa. haaa. BTW, please take the following poll. I created […]
“మన నాన్న” గా మనందరికీ ఆత్మీయుడు అయిన శ్రీ గుమ్మడి వెంకటేశ్వర రావు గారు మనకిక లేరు. Sri Gummadi Venkateswara Rao is no more. Many of us remember him as an endearing father figure. I met Sri Gummadi garu in person and hosted him at TANA 2007. Not only that, I had the honor of being a part of […]
Two years of business school education, and decades of experience in dealing with worthless securities is not enough to understand the complexities behind AIG bailout. Bernanke, one of the architects of the bailout, once expressed “outrage” over AIG executives getting bonuses. Today and this week both Bernanke and AIG will be in the news a […]
The rush for MBA degree and a job as a ‘manager’ was and is as original to America as an apple pie. A well educated hero in Telugu movies of good ole days is a medical doctor or an engineer. Now, the lead character in Telugu movies are often MBA graduates. If you thought an […]
I have copied and pasted the mail as it arrived in my mail box. The name of the person is irrelevant. If this is how this person first introduces himself to you, would you give him/her a job? I wouldn’t. Why?
It has been widely reported that Goldman Sachs got a sweet-heart deal from the bailout arm of the US Treasury, courtesy the then Treasury Secretary Paulson and the NY Fed Chairman, Tim Giethner. Tomorrow’s hearings on Capital Hill about AIG bailout has already shed a lot of light on the skeletons in Goldman’s closet. I […]
The caption says it all. Me thinks that a Bharata Ratna is likely for Rehman in the next 10 years. Congratulations, Maestro Padmabhushans!
This event by itself may not unsettle the credit markets like the news of Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing did. But it epitomizes the symptoms of this country’s corrupt financial system where excessive credit and leverage has pretty much sucked every last penny out of the system – especially from the hardworking middle class.
It is irrelevant which party is in power, the modus operandi is the same. Give us what we want, or else markets will tank! What we know from this process is that it is not the elected officials who are in charge. This is no democracy. This is an oligarchy. A bunch of fat cat bankers and large corporations are in charge. Not the Congress. Not the President.
During this conversation, I told the caller, Vijay garu that the formation of AP was prior to the Gentleman’s agreement. This is factually incorrect and I had to retract that assertion in an editorial insert. The reality of conducting a live show is that mistakes do happen for a variety of reasons. Regardless, I sincerely regret misstating the chronology of events surrounding one of the fundamental issues of dispute surrounding the demand for a separate Telangana state.
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As the caption reads, it was a short, but very hot call. Clearly this guy was set-up by whoever was filming this. పాపం, but funny! [media id=7]
We both believe that the facts, historical or contemporary, do not support the argument for division among Telugu people. This Telangana separatist movement is fueled more by hate-mongering by vested interest groups than it has any factual basis. When when some facts are valid, they are either accidental, or twisted – but definitely not due to evil-design by the people of one region. FYI, Chakravarthy hails from Nagonda disrtict and I hail from the neighboring Guntur district.
