Supa Ray

Had the opportunity to raise the problem of sovereign credit ratings in the @UN this week. Highlighted that: 1. Never in the history of ratings has the 5th largest economy - India - been rated BBB. 2. Rating is purely a mapping onto the probability of default, which depends in…

Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was

Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can't get enough of. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_pa…

Dear Bibek Da @bibekdebroy @DebroyBibek, As a distinguished economist, scholar, and author, you have left a legacy that touches every one of us lucky enough to have known you. Your commitment to intellectual rigor, the pursuit of reform, and the preservation of our cultural…

"I pay first world tax, get third world infra" US federal govt collects $4.4 trillion tax, to be spent on 300 million people. Our central govt collects $400 billion to be spent on 1.5 billion people. 55x delta. To get rich world infra across the board, we need to get rich first

Our Gypsy tracked Sunaina in Kanha and waited for our second gypsy to follow us. We kept quiet and let her walk .. walk and walk…Fantastic video by @ray_supa . Cant thank you enough :-) #PixelStripes #BeWildLiveWild

Recently, a student asked me why they have to learn trigonometry which doesn’t have real life applicability. My response wasn’t convincing. Here is Stanford alumni, Hamza Alsamrae, a math major, who responds as it should be…

My daughter, who is very sensitive and expesses herself very well for her age, often has bouts of melancholia just before she goes to sleep. While this is usually a ruse to extend her bedtime, some of the things she says are often profound. One day she was crying because she…

Brilliant conversation between @latha_venkatesh and Finance Secretary TV Somathanan on the budget. The beginning is a mic drop moment — there is no onus on the government to boost short term consumption, beyond taking care of the vulnerable. We don’t have to spend because some…

At the Pran Pratishtha ceremony today, the soul of a civilisation finds expression once again. And the message of virtue, honour, justice and commitment reverberates around the world.

In the Elon Musk biography, Isaacson tells of a poker game where Musk went all-in every time until he won. It's an analogy for how Musk - in Peter Thiel's words - "understands something about risk that everybody else doesn't", and how he's able to create companies that seemed…

In Delhi, Every evening, one martyred solider's Wife or Family member is given this honour. Apolitical and a very good gesture. Travel expenditure & night stay is catered for. It's been on since over a year now at National War Memorial at Kartavya Path , India Gate. Jai Hind 🇮🇳🇮🇳

This incredible photograph from 1885 AD, of Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria, who each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one…

Today is a huge day in India's journey towards once again being the world's largest economy and most innovative civilisation. #Chandrayaan3 It is symbolic, though one takes no pleasure in it, that it came just after Russia's failed mission to soft land near the Moon's South…

If we map the scientific landscape of India, we wouldn’t expect to see a small town in the Konkan region of Maharashtra called Mahad. One man, however, single handedly put his hometown, not only on the Indian research map, but on the venerated pages of the Lancet. Himmatrao…

NHAI, a flag-bearer of the Government’s asset monetisation (AM) programme, has mobilised over INR 30,000 crores with its TOTs and INVITs, in the past few years.

Infrastructure Investment Funds need to diversify across issuers, asset classes and investors to deepen the capital markets. @jagannarayan and @ray_supa explain why involving the states is crucial to this plan bit.ly/3BCZWP9

"increasing elasticity of demand for UK public debt during the latter half of the 20th century. This is in sharp contrast to the US, which displays the opposite ..decline in market power of UK in safe assets resulted in a sizeable decline in seigniorage.." nber.org/system/files/w…