Nirmala Sitharaman said confidence in the Indian stock market is growing as retail and small investors are keenly investing money in the share market. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the Indian economy is on a sustained path of revival and cited rise in GST collections and direct […]

The Chinese Communist Party can at any time stop the collapse of the Evergrande Real Estate Group mushrooming into a systemic financial crisis: it controls the banking system and has hegemonic sway over the transaction counterparties. It is hard to imagine a Lehman denouement in such circumstances. Beijing would not […]

Public schools are bleeding students. Education Week reports that, based on a survey of 51 state departments of education, all experience fall-offs in enrollment from the 2019/2020 school year to the 2020/2021 year. The total estimated drop nationally, based on the same evidence, was 1.45 million students who left public […]

The Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy stimulus unchanged on Wednesday, ahead of next week’s presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to select a successor to the outgoing Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The board, governed by Haruhiko Kuroda, on Wednesday, voted 8-1, to hold the interest rate […]

He further stated that National Highways Authority of India will receive an annual toll income to the tune of ₹1.40 lakh crore in the next five years from the current level of ₹40,000 crore. The Centre will get toll revenues worth ₹1,000 to 1,500 crore every month once the much-awaited […]

Fund managers are bracing for continued pressure on iron ore prices, with China’s moves to curb steel production to limit air pollution poised to squeeze share prices of big name miners and threaten federal government tax revenue. The key steel-making material’s price has seen its value halve since record-breaking highs […]

Education is the key to unlocking many advantages. The Census Bureau tracks education levels, particularly those with less than a high school degree, some college, less than a bachelor’s degree, a bachelor’s degree and education beyond college. The relationships between education, income, poverty and health are clear. Another factor that […]