Satyajit Das

The Power of Money

A trilogy of books for the layman that provides the more experiences with interesting detail, unexpected affinities, or sometime novel insights.

Reverse Oil Shock

The price of crude oil, adjusted for inflation, is at 1979 levels, having fallen by over 40 percent since June 2014. Satyajit Das writes that this is not the first oil price shock but part of the periodic conflicts in the oil market that John D. Rockefeller, a century ago, called the “great sweating.”

The Asian American Century

The obituary of the American Century has been written, but there are very good reasons to believe that the USA will continue to play a dominant role in the 21st century.

Swiss Finish – Lessons for Central Bankers?

The fallout from the decision of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to abandon a fixed value of the Swiss franc (CHF) against the euro may foreshadow the potential consequences of the end or failure of central bank activism. As Gloucester in Shakespeares King Lear states: “These late eclipses of the sun and moon portend no good to us.”