The world is indeed changing very fast. What we have seen in the last 2-3 yeras was not observed in the last 80 years in the financial markets. After the credit default, which was thwarted by pumping of money by the governments by taking debt, this, I think was inevitable. It is no rocket science and you need not be an economist to understand this trap. The Credit crisis was not eliminated, but was postponed only by shifting the private debt into public debt and in the process, the criminals of the financial terrorism unleashed on the world economy went scot free. Now Security and Exchange Commission is reprimanding Goldman Sachs over the fraud of selling derivatives to the customers that they knew was against all ethics. But everybody was enjoying the scent of money at that time. Now as there are reports of probable sovereign default by Greece and( so "derogatory") PIGS countries are coming in, the world must prepare itself and every country needs to introspect so that the d
The timing of recent proposal by RBI to introduce base rate mechanism for lending activities could not have been better. Taking the experience of global financial crisis in which Indian Banks remained more or less unscathed, there must be a transparency in systems followed by the Banks to lend money prudently. Banking is a business, where safety of depositors money is of utmost importance. By lending below the average cost of the Bank, the bank jeopardise the safety of depositors fund as well as start a rate war among the lending institutions, that may be beneficial for the Bank as well as immensely beneficial for the borrower in the short term, it may be harmful for the banking system as a whole. The basic question is why should banks lend money at less than the cost of the fund to the bank? If strategically lending is done to select customers at rates below cost of funds, this has to be cross subsidised by higher rates for many more borrowers. There starts a disparity among borrowers