Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s Blog

Gillian Tett, a reporter with FT  mentioned the following incident in a recent column.. ” A decade ago, I was working as a reporter in Tokyo when I was asked to investigate the impact of Japanese-style quantitative easing. Back then, the Bank of Japan was pouring gazillions of yen into the money markets and politicians [...]

“To believe that there is no way out of the present crisis for capitalism is an error” said Mr. Vladimir Lenin exactly 90 years ago, in March 1919, faced with another economic crisis, While discussing the dire straits of capitalism, he made the aforesaid comment and was  unwilling to write an epitaph of capitalism. That [...]

What is the future for credit ratings agencies and how should they be treated under the new system of financial market regulation evolving internationally? These questions have been hotly debated in recent months and a consensus is now emerging. The European Union is close to finalizing legislation to register and regulate ratings firms for the [...]