संवाद # 51: Prasanna Tantri on Modinomics, UPA's biggest fraud & stock market investment strategy

Dr Prasanna Tantri is an Associate Professor in the Finance area and Executive Director of the Centre for Analytical Finance at ISB. His research areas include- banking, financial inclusion, financial contagion, regulation, and the relationship between politics and finance. He teaches a course on Indian financial systems.

0:00 Intro
1:12 Link between oil prices and inflation
5:18 One great thing about Nirmala Sitharaman’s budgets
7:06 Big mistake by West & why their inflation problem is much bigger than India’s
10:34 Why stock markets are in red these days
13:45 SIPs or Lump-sum - which is better strategy for Mutual Funds?
17:00 Best strategies for stock market investment
27:05 Sitharaman - Best Finance Minister since Manmohan Singh?
34:18 How UPA destroyed banking industry in 2008
43:50 NDA’s mistake & what can be done to revive banks & solve NPAs problem
49:17 Capitalising banks will be best investment & create more jobs
54:32 Arun Jaitley Vs Nirmala Sitharaman
57:31 One big mistake Modi govt might make - on deficits
1:04:26 UPA’s financial trickery in 2008
1:05:08 Contribution of Vajpayee in UPA’s high growth years
1:07:07 Why farm debt waivers are so harmful
1:14:16 Reforms by Modi govt in NREGA - Pros and Cons
1:17:56 How Corporate Tax cuts help aam aadmi
1:23:58 What reforms should govt do in direct taxes
1:27:20 Has GST not been a big success?
1:33:45 Crazy taxes on cars