Top 5 Unicorns in India
Startups

Top 5 Unicorns in India

India ranks 3rd in the race of startup hosting countries in the world, leaving behind countries like Canada, North Korea and the UK. We recently hit the mark of 100 Unicorns, and the numbers are still growing. With the saturation point for startups coming close in countries like the US, investors are looking at India as the new Silicon Valley.

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Are Mutual Funds completely risk-free?
Mutual Funds

Are Mutual Funds completely risk-free?

Generally, when things go south in a marriage of  two people, there’s at least some alimony involved. But what do 50 million Mutual Funds Investors get when the market hits rock bottom? Baba ji ka?

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Impact of Russia Ukraine War on Indian Stock Market
Finance

Impact of Russia Ukraine War on Indian Stock Market

Why are old people like this? A power and land-hungry sick politician, on his deathbed, decided to wreck the world with a war. And it is we who have to bear the long chain of consequences, one of which is eroding more of our money every day as the war progresses.  

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What is Volatility in Stock Market?- Understanding VIX
Stock Market

What is Volatility in Stock Market?- Understanding VIX

What’s like surfing on a wave? Well, it depends on the type of wave, right? The higher the wave and the rougher the sea is, the more difficult it is to maintain balance. 

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Top Government Schemes for Startups and MSMEs in India
Startups

Top Government Schemes for Startups and MSMEs in India

Startup India, Standup India! No no this is not just a slogan, these are actual government schemes in which the government is providing a lot of benefits to startups and MSMEs registered in India.

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Fast Fashion: How it is affecting the environment
Business

Fast Fashion: How it is affecting the environment

Your OOTD is toxic. Your future generation is going to suffer just because you want to copy that good-looking celebrity!

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Everything about Fiat Currency
Finance

Everything about Fiat Currency

We would often hear our grandparents say that when they were kids, they would get a coin of 25 paise to buy ice cream cones for the whole family. Then, our parents said that they got ₹2 coins to buy those cones. Today, we buy those for ₹50.  It is fascinating how price of a single commodity could take so many shapes, literally. 25 paise coins were round and small. ₹2 coins are a bit bigger. And the ₹50, well, they are no circular metal thing but a piece of rectangular paper.  Ever wondered how they came into existence? How they evolved? What are they backed by? How can a piece of paper hold monetary value? 

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Top 5 Neobanks in India
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Top 5 Neobanks in India

Banking is an old system, so much so that one might even call it ancient. How ancient you ask? Well, the earliest instance of an organisation managing the funds of a large group of people can be seen as far ago as the 15th century. As the barter system came to an end due to its inherent flaws and the currency became the mainstay, banks were a complimentary development that needed to happen.

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How Does the Government Control Inflation?
Macro Moves

How Does the Government Control Inflation?

A group of robbers entered the minting unit of a country. There were many people inside the unit. The group held all of them hostage. They stayed there for days and started printing money. They printed thousands of currency notes; then millions, then billions. Finally, they stopped at €2.4 billion. And escaped.

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What is Decentralization in Blockchain?
Finance

What is Decentralization in Blockchain?

Decentralization is a term we all have heard of very early in our life. Little did we know the meaning of it back then. Today, decentralisation is a concept that works the complete Web 3.0 technology like the blockchain.

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Top 5 Semiconductor Stocks in India
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Top 5 Semiconductor Stocks in India

The world is expanding in many ‘non-literal’ ways, especially in terms of technology. Technology was running the world when even when we were going through lock-down, quarantine & WFH. 

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What is black money and how does it work?
Finance

What is black money and how does it work?

What do we talk about when we talk about black money and money laundering? Well, in India, it has to start with Vijay Mallya, Kingfisher and then gradually move on to Nirav Modi and his uncle, Mehul Choksi. “With all the kaala dhan they must have stashed in the Swiss Banks, at least 3 of their generations wouldn't have to do any labour!” - being the hackneyed dialogue. 

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What is Cost Push Inflation?
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What is Cost Push Inflation?

We've discussed inflation in a recent blog. It means a reduction in the everyday consumer's purchasing power. This reduction in purchasing power comes from an increase in the prices of goods and services offered in an economy.

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What is FOIR? How to calculate it?
Macro Moves

What is FOIR? How to calculate it?

Loans, debts and everything credit! There are thousands of loans and credit facilities available for people like you and me that we can avail. But at the same time, customers like us are screened under many factors. 

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Taper Tantrum: Everything You Need to Know
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Taper Tantrum: Everything You Need to Know

If you are somewhere connected to the financial industry, you must have gone through this term taper tantrum, haven’t you? You are at the right place to find out everything about taper tantrums. Let’s dive in and decipher this topic. But to understand this term, we need to understand the history of this term as well as what tapering is?

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What is Demand Pull Inflation?
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What is Demand Pull Inflation?

Today’s blog might come off as an Economics class for you, so beware! For here lie the secrets that work the economies of countries. 

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What is Stagflation?
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What is Stagflation?

Economics is the study of commercial activity in an area specifically a country and how the money flows in a country or the value of goods and services produced, distributed and consumed, inflation, cost, industry, demand & supply, per capita income, national income, stages of development in a country and trust me, a lottttttt more! 🤯🤯🤯  It's not wrong to say that economics at its very core is the study of people. Where you can find out what macro and micro factors affect the dynamics of a country. 

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9 Ways to Identify Bad Stocks
Finance

9 Ways to Identify Bad Stocks

Do you remember the Satyam Computer Services scam from the year 2009, the Sahara scam of 2014 or maybe the Kingfisher fraud of 2016? And the master of all frauds, the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc in 2008 which literally was one of the major causes of the global recession back then. 

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