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Economic Times - Finance minister P Chidambaram’s fifth budget stumped the chattering classes, mostly with incomes of well over Rs 10 lakh a year. The Rs 10-lakh income threshold is relevant because there are less than 300,000 people in India showing a taxable
New Delhi, March 2
Tribune - Union finance minister P Chidambaram has made more allocation in 2008-09 General Budget for women and child welfare. It is a moot point whether that will reach the people like these who live on pavements at Jantar Mantar in the Capital on Sunday
Borrowing costs at 15-yr high
News.com.au - Given the sharp increase in the cost of wholesale finance faced by the banks, we anticipate the banks continue to raise corporate lending rates,” he said.
Post budget: What can you do with your surplus income?
Indian Express - At least half the money that the finance minister has put into the tax payer’s pocket should be invested in long-term saving instruments New Delhi, March 2: Fourty-two year old Niranjan stated as he ruched to office, “I hear the budget would leave
China discovers the permissive society
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Team Wins New England Investment Research Challenge
Forbes - We congratulate the team and share in the honor and pride their victory brings to Babson and our investments education programs,” said Steven Feinstein, Ph.D., CFA, Associate Professor of Finance, Donald P.
Devil of India’s Budget Lies in Missing Details: Andy Mukherjee
Bloomberg - March 3 (Bloomberg) — Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram’s annual budget is one part Robin Hood and another part Houdini. It’s hard to say which one is worse. In his Feb. 29 budget speech in parliament in New Delhi, Chidambaram
Flaherty’s ‘attacks’ on Ontario undermine economy: McGuinty
Globe and Mail - TORONTO — Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty undermined confidence in the Canadian economy with his “inappropriate and potentially harmful” comments aimed at singling out Ontario as the last place in Canada to start a business, Premier
GOP Frets Over Democratic Fundraising
Forbes - Such a money advantage could mean that for the first time since post-Watergate campaign finance laws, a presidential candidate may forgo public financing for the general election.
Dean: McCain Has a Problem of Saying One Thing and Doing Another
Forbes - WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today on CNN’s Late Edition, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean highlighted John McCain’s hypocrisy on the campaign trail. Citing McCain’s efforts to skirt the same campaign finance laws
Is your name on the voting list?
Miami Herald - Personal Finance Welcome to the first presidential election in which almost each say must have a list of every registered voter.
IN BRIEF
Deccan Herald - Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday sought to allay apprehensions that the Rs 60,000-crore farmers’ package will lead to collapse of the cooperative and scheduled commercial banks and weaken the banking system. TRS MPs, MLAs to resign Stepping
50% of IFCI’s employees go for VRS
Indian Express - Finance minister P Chidambaram has made a provision of Rs 433 crore in the budget 2008-09 for restructuring old liabilities of IFCI. Sources stated 54 per cent reduction in workforce is in line with the intended business plan in the changed
JAMMU & KASHMIR
Tribune - However, at this stage when eight states including Jammu and Kashmir would soon go to Assembly elections and LS polls could be announced, the UPA government can even promise moon,” said former finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather.
Buffett States U.S. Trade Imbalance Lures Sovereign Wealth Funds
Tehran Times - valued at $75 billion at yearend, Berkshire owns businesses ranging from candy making and residential real estate brokerage to utilities and corporate jet leasing, giving Buffett an insider’s perspective on many facets of the economy and finance.
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