Everyone is waiting for a crash to happen.
Whether it is the prices of petrol, Zomato’s valuation in the IPO or for that matter the Indian equities market – everything seems expensive.
Let’s first start with the rising petrol prices.
There is a big case for the fact that –
- Taxes are not being cut
- Global crude prices have come down
- Fiscal Deficit has been under control
The issue with all the above is none. But it is just a product of first order thinking. Let’s try and put second-order thinking to this issue.
There is a big case in India presently to ensure transition to electric sources – whether it is vehicles or cooking in our houses.
But this transition cannot take place until and unless it makes a commercial sense.
Yes, global warming is real but when it comes to using a greener source of energy, the shift will not happen because people care for the environment but it will ONLY happen if it makes commercial sense.
This is something that we had discussed in an earlier webinar covering Tata Motors. Here are a few excerpts –
In order to promote the use of ‘A’, one can either make ‘A’ cheap through subsidies (first order thinking) or make ‘B’ expensive (second order thinking) to promote the use of ‘A’.
Let’s now look at Zomato’s valuations.
And finally, when are the markets crashing?
Webinar Updates
This week we completed the 34th Webinar of the Beta to Alpha series. As we approached this milestone, two of our companies discussed in the last few months have actually run-up more than 100%.
You can check out the comprehensive dashboard here.
For the last two weeks, we have covered two companies which can unlock massive value on account of special situation – corporate re-organization!
We tweeted about one of the companies here –
Book of the Week
This week, I wish to recommend a book I had read almost 9 years back.
The book is called – 100 Dollar Start-Up.
It is a collection of stories of folks who started businesses with as low as 100 dollars to scale it up to being self-sufficient with running these businesses.
Video of the Week
This video is three years old. Raunak Onkar talks about the music streaming business. While multiple risks have been highlighted in the business, we have covered them in our deep dives on Saregama and Tips.
Song of the Week
Let’s go back to some classics.
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