Dilip Simeon's blog

Article on problems with employment data . For instance, many are not working while they are employed, even if not being paid or earning. Article on recent announcement on faceless taxation and why government’s steps in the last many years have not been successful in raising the number of people filing tax returns Ravish’s interview on the economy on NDTV Channel Article on persisting problems with GST in Hindustan Discussion in Hindi ongrowing privatization in Railways Review of Banerjee and Duflo’s book   Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems Arun Kumar Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Chair Professor Institute of Social Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070

NB : Indians have ample experience of certain parties and leaders inciting communal hatred and violence in order to build mass support and voting blocs. Here we see the American President doing the same . He wants a civil war, and doesn't care how many people are killed so long as he retains power.  The USA has invaded many countries over the past decades of the Cold war. Now it is invading itself. God help the American people. DS..  There are a seemingly infinite number of stories about how Donald Trump is the worst kind of person in every possible way, so readers can be forgiven if they missed or forgot this one: In 1991, Trump, ever the soulless troll,  took his then-mistress, Marla Maples, to Aspen, Colorado, to spring her on his then-wife , Ivana Trump.  Accounts of the specific details vary, but converge on one central fact: The two women had a very public fight while Trump looked on, apparently with pleasure. Trump’s main memory of the event w...