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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio thinks reducing the U.S. budget deficit could stabilize the bond market and lower interest rates.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The stock market is possibly teaching new and old investors some old investing lessons all over again. The Nifty 500 Total Returns Index, a good representation of the overall Indian stock market, has fallen 11.3% since peaking on 26 September.

Saif Ali Khan at his home, is now turning into a political row after the Mumbai Police claimed that Shariful Islam is a citizen of Bangladesh and had entered into India illegally.

If given the opportunity, 43 per cent of young Canadians would vote to be American, with a few guarantees.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. OTTAWA-Since Justin Trudeau said he would resign as prime minister, one Canadian politician after another has looked at running to lead the Liberal Party into new elections that polls show it will lose badly and said: “Not me." Now a prominent name is finally hinting he will run-Mark Carney, a familiar face to the world of finance as the former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England and current chairman of Brookfield Asset Management. In an appearance Monday night on the Daily Show, he suggested "without mentioning his potential candidacy" that the party could benefit from an outsider with experience in economics and finance to help guide the Canadian economy at a precarious moment, given the threat by President-elect Donald Trump to slap a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports.

Amit Shah on Sunday said veteran politician Sharad Pawar played politics of betrayal and treachery in Maharashtra from 1978, which was ended by BJP's massive victory in the assembly polls with its resolve to establish a stable government. Addressing a state BJP convention in Shirdi, Shah said the people of Maharashtra showed Pawar, who heads NCP (SP), and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray their place by rejecting the politics of dynasty and betrayal in last year's elections. Citing differences between Congress and allies in Delhi, West Bengal, Bihar, and Maharashtra, Shah said the decline of the opposition INDI block has begun. «Sharad Pawar started politics of 'daga-phatka' (betrayal and treachery) in Maharashtra in 1978, which was rejected by people in 2024 (elections). Similarly, the politics of the dynasty and the betrayal of Uddhav Thackeray was also rejected. People showed Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray their place in 2024 polls,» Shah said.

Rahul Gandhi, scheduled for Friday at an MP-MLA court here, was postponed due to a strike by lawyers. Advocate Santosh Kumar Pandey, representing complainant Vijay Mishra, stated that the special court's magistrate Shubham Verma has now scheduled the hearing for January 22 to complete cross-examination. The case dates back to 2018 when Mishra, a local BJP politician, filed a defamation complaint against Gandhi. Mishra alleged that Gandhi made objectionable remarks during the Karnataka assembly elections that deeply hurt him. After a prolonged five-year legal process, Gandhi failed to appear in court, leading the presiding judge in December 2023 to issue a warrant for his appearance. Gandhi surrendered before the court in February 2024.

The late New York Sen_ Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TORONTO—The last time the U.S. seriously floated the idea of taking over Canada, it was 1866, and the dust had just settled on the Civil War.

Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win reelection, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe

Is everybody out there enjoying their GST/HST holiday? I can think of one person who isn’t. This gift to Canadians from on high was supposed to endear them to the prime minister who commanded it but seems instead to have persuaded most of us we’ve had enough with policy gimmicks and at least one politician who resorted to them once too often. He’s now out on his ear. Let’s hope other politicians and their oh-so-clever policy “strategists” take note.

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Keir Starmer on Monday condemned «lies and misinformation» that he said are undermining U.K. democracy, in response to a barrage of attacks on his government from Elon Musk.

Olaf Scholz. But last week, he said something truly worthy of Confucius: 'Don't feed the troll.' Elon Musk has been on a spree of insults targeting him ('fool', 'Oaf Schitz') and other fellow Social Democrat politicians in Germany. Yes, surprise, surprise, Trump's CEO isn't a big fan of centre-left thinking and has been voicing/X-ing support for Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When I joined the Federal Reserve Board as vice chairman in 1994, the central bank was already the center of the universe for financial-market specialists. To the general public, however, it was an obscure government agency that did .

N Chandrababu Naidu has a very tough decision to make over the next few days as chief secretary Neerabh Kumar Prasad is retiring on January 31. Naidu has to choose the state’s top officer to lead his development agenda. The senior-most 1988 batch IAS officer Y Srilakshmi is unlikely to be considered because of her proximity to the previous administration. Those in the know say two officers — G Sai Prasad (1991 batch) and K VIjayanand (1992 batch) —have emerged as the frontrunners and the politicians are weighing this decision through the caste prism as Prasad is a Kamma (Naidu's caste) and Vijayanand belongs to the backward community.

Elon Musk drew criticism from German politicians from the government and opposition on Sunday for an opinion piece he wrote backing the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) which they deemed «intrusive» outside influence.

Manmohan Singh, who died at 92 on Thursday night, was a man of many legacies in a political firmament in which far more entrenched career politicians struggle to make a mark. He first secured his spot in India’s political map as executor—under the stewardship of PV Narasimha Rao—of the landmark economic liberalisation programme that broke the shackles of the licence raj and opened up India’s socialist-oriented economic policies to the free market, ushering in the era of rising economic growth and the emergence of the aspirational Indian. Those policies would ultimately result in India becoming one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies.

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