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Mera Bharat Mahaan

  
Economy, Education, LINKS
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sensex16kThe Sensex, the benchmark index of BSE, posted a return of 64% during the first 36 weeks of the current calendar year increasing their kitty by whopping Rs 946,757 cr. Incidentally, this is the highest return during the same period for the last 17 years.

Many hurdles for Wardha’s farmer suicide cases

Farmers grow desperate as India is hit by worst drought since 1972

Drought-hit Indian farmers sell wives to pay debts

Uttar Pradesh Farmers Among Worst Hit by Drought

Dark secrets of Baramati

Drought, debt lead to Indian Farmers’ suicide

India’s Sugar Crop Wilts Amid Drought

Droughtexpands in India, sugar regions hitHunger haunts more than 20% in India, much of Asia: ADB report

 

 

Is India getting poorer?

Grade 3 Math Assignment

  
  Education
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Grade 3 Math Assignment

Tom has 1 apple.

Tom has promised to give Robbie, Jim, Anne and Mary, half an apple each.

How does Tom get 4 half apples from 1 apple?

Bonus Question:

While Robbie, Jim, Anne, and Mary are waiting for their half apple, Tom gets hungry and takes a couple bites out of the apple.  How does Tom now turn a half eaten apple into 4 half apples?

And you aren’t allowed to call it an iApple and say it can do anything.

Here is the basic problem and why Italian and Spanish bonds are getting crushed again today (ignoring horrific unemployment data out of Spain).

If Italy defaults with a 40% recovery, there  is 1.613 trillion euro of debt affected (that is up about 10 billion in about a month).  That means creditors would lose 970 trbillion.   Spain with 663 billion would cost almost 400 billion (its debt has shot up about 15 billion in a month). 

The problem is that EFSF doesn’t take default off the table.  It may delay the time to default (by helping roll debts as they mature), but all it mainly does is shift who would take the loss.  The guarantors can’t handle losses that big. (more…)

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