And now we are all going bananas!

You know what really had me terrified on Nov. 7? The all-too-real possibility of a highly suspect result. What would we have done if the Republicans had held on to the House by a narrow margin, but circumstantial evidence strongly suggested that a combination of vote suppression and defective – or rigged – electronic voting machines made the difference?

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BOOK EXTRACT

It is August 1854, and London is a city of scavengers. Just the names alone now read like some kind of exotic zoological catalogue: bonepickers, rag-gatherers, pure-fi nders, dredgermen, mud-larks, sewerhunters, dustmen, night-soil men, bunters, toshers, shoremen. These were the London underclasses, atleast a hundred thousand strong. So immense were their numbers that had the scavengers broken off and formed their own city, it would have been the fifth-largest in all of England.

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An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao (GMR)

Bottomline figures for GMR Industries (that controls the agro-business of GMR) are on a roll since financial year 2002-03 and they have grown by almost six times to Rs.345.23 million for the FY 2005-06 as against Rs.60.96 million in FY 2002-03. Also, the share prices of GMR Industries have catapulted from Rs.9.45 per share in January 2002 to Rs.358.90 per share by November 2006. With strong financial support and aggressive outlook towards airport infrastructure in India, the growth story of GMR group certainly seems to be long lasting.

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Times have changed and the whole business of political campaigning has changed too

It’s no more just long speeches that political candidates are using. They are doing much more to reach closer to the young generation. They now do phone polling, phone surveying and SMS text messaging to market their parties and themselves – things that the younger crowd finds cool and trendy.

Just as a brand needs to communicate the product benefits, the political candidate should be able to communicate something that the voters can understand and identify. He needs to work on a good sales pitch to increase his chances of winning. He needs to know what his target audience wants, and then he should sell that.

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Infrastructure Conglomerate

Essar is one of the most talked about conglomerates of India and has its presence into business through oil & gas, shipping, construction, telecom & BPO, steel and power. The Rs. 110 billion group has been largely consolidating its holdings under the Essar Global; Ernst & Young being the adviser to the group.

The telecom arm – better known as Hutchison Essar has been one of the key businesses of the Group. In July 2006, Essar increased its stake in the HEL (Hutchison Essar Limited) by 6.26% to make it 22.02% from the previous 15%. It accelerated in the telecom sector by few significant moves; buying out TPG Nambiar’s 13% stake for Rs.1.25 billion in BPL Communications was one of them. It is on the grapevine that Essar is getting into retail by this December via. selling mobile phones and Richard Branson is said to provide the technical support and store design to it.

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“shop until you drop”

Finally, as energy prices have begun to decline and as interest rates have recently come off , the consumer’s endless energy to “shop until you drop” may once again be revitalized.

Then, there is also a technical reason for my renewed caution about holding longer dated Treasury securities. At the end of August, Large Speculators held record net long positions of Ten-year Treasury Future Contracts – indicating too much bullishness among these market participants.

Based on these indicators, investors should, now, not at all be falling in love with bonds based on a recessionary scenario, but they should actually be selling bonds aggressively...

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