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BasisPoint Insight, an initiative of Econ Pen Research Pvt Ltd, is founded by seasoned financial journalists and analysts with decades of experience chronicling India’s economic transformation. Our founders have witnessed and reported on every pivotal moment – from liberalisation to global crises – cultivating institutional knowledge that informs every analysis we publish.
With over 25 years at the forefront of financial journalism, our team doesn’t just interpret trends; we understand their origins, having shaped discussions on bonds, currencies, equities, macroeconomic policy, regulation, and corporate strategy. We combine market expertise with a grasp of what drives decisions – whether dissecting macroeconomic policies, corporate earnings, or regulatory shifts.
BasisPoint Insight serves a discerning audience that demands substance over soundbites: investors allocating capital across asset classes, corporate leaders navigating regulatory shifts, policymakers balancing growth agendas, and advisors translating complexity into strategy. Source
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Search ArticlesShould the Bank of Japan Raise Interest Rates?
In my early years as an economics professor, I was occasionally asked to present my work to a group of international economists, and several times I was lucky enough to do so at a beautiful site overlooking Lake Geneva. One economist—quiet, thoughtful, not at all antagonistic—always appeared at those presentations, and even met me for breakfast in New York City. His name was Scott Bessent, currently Secretary of the US Treasury under President Donald Trump.
India Cannot Become Developed On Bank Credit Alone
There is an old joke in financial circles that a James Bond film dubbed into Indian languages earns more money than India’s bond market. Whether the comparison survives forensic accounting is beside the point. The joke has endured because it captures an uncomfortable truth. More people have probably built successful careers organising conferences, policy dialogues and seminars on deepening India’s bond market than many participants have built investing in it.
Who Finances India's Next Industrial Age
Every economic generation constructs project orders of magnitude larger than the previous. The capital demands of railway networks once eclipsed textile mills. Massive steel plant complexes later dwarfed railways. Today, frontier domains such as artificial intelligence, semiconductor fabrication and aerospace routinely demand tens, sometimes hundreds, of billions of dollars, with payback periods extending well over a decade.
How Unequal Access Quietly Shapes India's Economic Future
Dear Insighter, You know that peculiar mix of relief and shame sitting in an air-conditioned cab while watching others jostle onto an overloaded bus outside? That guilt when you're grateful for comfort but immediately ashamed of gratitude? I spent the last week buried in A Little Life, and one scene struck me: when JB travels by metro and realises his own people, immigrants like himself, exist in a completely different economic reality.
Forward Guidance Fades, the Fed’s Reaction Function Takes Over
Alan Greenspan once remarked, perhaps in jest: “Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.” Times moved on. Clarity became a virtue, not a vice, and forward guidance became an important weapon in the central banker’s armoury. Market responses to Fed communication became an important part of the monetary policy transmission mechanism.
Asia Rises Despite Escalating US-Iran Conflict and Higher Oil Prices
Global Mood: Cautiously Risk-on Drivers: Hormuz Closed Again, US-Iran Escalation, Gaza Violence, Ukraine Nuclear Plant Attack Asian markets opened broadly higher on Monday, signalling a measured risk-on mood despite renewed military exchanges between the US and Iran. Investors largely looked through the latest escalation, betting that the conflict would remain contained and that disruption to global energy supplies would be limited.
Europe Has a Defence Budget. It Does Not Yet Have a Kshatriya's Mind
When the numbers arrive, everyone reaches for a calculator. The NATO Ankara summit produced a commitment that would have seemed improbable a decade ago: member states pledging 5% of GDP to defence and security. Of course, it moved the markets, with procurement timelines being revised and defence companies modelling contracts. Political commentators declared that Europe had, finally, turned a strategic corner.
Week in Numbers: Tracking India’s Economic Pulse
Growth in India’s retail automobile sales accelerated in June, driven by across-the-board gains across all major segments. Total sales grew 21.8% year-on-year to 2.56 million units. Overall sales had grown 9.5% in May and 9.8% in June last year. Automobile sales in the country have mostly remained buoyant since the government cut goods and services tax rates in September.
The Curry Leaf Crisis: When Even a Garnish Needs a Pedigree
My education in the new sociology of curry leaves began recently at a roadside vegetable stall in Mysuru. I casually asked for a bunch of curry leaves. The vendor quoted a price that seemed better suited to saffron than to something growing in thousands of Indian homes. Seeing my bewilderment, he smiled patiently. “Sir, this is naati.” Local. Traditional. Native. The implication was obvious.
Sarci-Sense: The Indian Habit of Giving Everything Another Chance
There are few greater disappointments in an Indian childhood than opening an ice cream tub and discovering sambar. Most of us know that moment. The container promises dessert but delivers yesterday’s dinner. The disappointment lasts only a few seconds because, after a while, one realises that the deception is not accidental. It is our cultural identity. In an Indian home, the original purpose of an object is merely a suggestion. Its real career begins only after the manufacturer believes it has ended.