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What distinguishes truth from lies? Statistics, of course. Nothing illustrates the criticality of timely, accurate, consistent data for sound economic decision-making than US Federal Reserve chairperson Jerome Powell’s lament about contemporary monetary policy being like “driving slowly through a foggy night”. He was referring to the consequences of reducing the US Federal Reserve rate below […]
Read More Statistics: Credibility concernsI am an Asthmatic. The guys in the photo are not. They are healthy, young and resilient. I am 73 and frail. I came back from Goa to Delhi by air on November 5. Two days later I was eating corticosteroids instead of squid, Pan D instead of vindaloo, antibiotics instead of fish thalis, ingesting […]
Read More Let Delhi breathe & earn a livingI am an Asthmatic. The guys in the photo are not. They are healthy, young and resilient. I am 73 and frail. I came back from Goa to Delhi by air on November 5. Two days later I was eating corticosteroids instead of squid, Pan D instead of vindaloo, antibiotics instead of fish thalis, ingesting […]
Read More Let Delhi breathe & earn a livingIndian gentrified types living in London or visiting to shop, eat and enjoy a stroll along orderly pavements without dodging cars or scooters – but on high alert nevertheless for mobile and handbag snatchers and other such con artists- were horrified that an Indian man chose to wash his feet in the River Thames recently. […]
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