With recent responsibilities, I have taken the resolution to take my finances more seriously (sadly, which I have never!). With this, I have opened one more joint bank  account, applied for a joint credit card and this time, have not got with any pre-approved offers but selecting from couple of choices available. Thanks to my in-time credit card payments !
Honestly, being in US on working visa doesn’t leave much of a scope to have long term house mortgage but still there are other small loans, that I may need from time to time e.g. …

It’s perhaps more than 3-4 years since I have read Ayn Rand’s ‘Fountainhead‘ and ‘Atlas Shrugged‘ and while it takes me time to recollect even the subject names that I have studied during my MBA days, forget about the course books and content, I can very well recall many speeches, especially the huge one on Objectivism and plot-line of the books. But yeah, I am not special as ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has claimed the title of Second most influential book after Bible and has been moving People’s life since last many years.
However, …

During my regular internet surfing, I stumble upon an interview of Warren Buffet at CNBC where he is criticizing Apple for hiding the serious illness of Steve Jobs and that he did a liver transplant couple of months back.
If I have any serious illness, or something coming up of an important nature, an operation or anything like that, I think the thing to do is just tell the American, the Berkshire shareholders about it.  I work for ‘em.  Some people might think I’m important to the company.  Certainly Steve Jobs is …

 
Like every second IT guy, I manage to get lot of email forwards, many of which I delete without even having a look but this forward from Tanay caught my attention. Fine, it’s an anecdote and things are not this simple but I couldn’t resist the temptation to post this :- )
Actual Source: Unknown
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It is August. In a small town on the South coast of France, holiday season is in full swing.  But it is raining so there isn’t too much business happening.
 
Everyone is heavily in debt.
 
Luckily, a rich Russian tourist …

The foundation of this post has been laid in the afternoon after there has been a forward on one of the bakar threads and it has been satirically replied by Rajiv. The forward was regarding support to Indian goods and boycott foreign products and unusually, a non-sense thread got some good view points.
Globalisation has been mostly hated in developing nations on the notion that rich nations and companies are spreading a colonial regime, utilizing poor nation’s resources, manpower and buying power (countries like India/China). There are lot of pamphlet circulations, …