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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
TopicGlobal Financial Crisis

Topic: Global Financial Crisis

For the economy, Covid has been worse than WW-II and the global financial crisis

In ‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis’, Arun Kumar writes what India can learn from China and the US on its road to economic recovery.

Modi govt and RBI can learn from mistakes made during 2008 crisis, but time’s running out

Lessons from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis can help us avoid policy mistakes during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially with respect to inflation & bad loans.

Financial markets no longer know how to define ‘safe’

Bears & financial doomsday preppers were ridiculed during bull market. They haven’t been vindicated, but people’s perception of risk has been forever altered.

Nothing’s taboo for Gita Gopinath, IMF’s new chief economist & first woman in job

More than a decade since IMF failed to predict the financial crisis, Gita Gopinath plans to use “broadest lens possible” to find economic solutions.

Why Lehman’s Act 3 won’t play in emerging markets

The forces that hastened Lehman’s demise have steadied emerging markets in the last 10 years.

India is having its own mini-Lehman moment on 10th anniversary of global financial crisis

IL&FS Group is woefully short of liquidity, with about $500 million in repayments coming due & only about $27 million available.

How Bank of Baroda beat India’s worst bond-market rout in two decades

Bank of Baroda official Kamal Mahajan says it all began with a contrarian bet taken two years ago. Kamal Mahajan says he’s being asked just...

On Camera

Bhajan raves, caste jokes, Kundli-matching—young India is scrolling back to conservatism

These were the battles we thought we’d already fought. The slow recognition that caste is a plague upon Indian society. The hard-won right to choose your own partner.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.