

Finshots Daily
Finshots
A daily 5-min podcast explaining the most important finance and business happenings in plain English. India focused.
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Oct 21, 2020 • 8min
How to design Nobel Prize Worthy Auctions?
In today's Finshots, we talk about SMRAs and spectrum auctions.

Oct 20, 2020 • 8min
The Winners Curse and how to avoid it?
In today's Finshots, we tell you why Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics

Oct 19, 2020 • 6min
How to advertise sin products?
In today's Finshots, we talk about the government's new guidelines surrounding surrogate advertising.

Oct 17, 2020 • 7min
The changing face of HDFC life & the Insurance industry
Life insurance products have been synonymous with LIC since time immemorial. But ever since the government opened up the industry to private players, a lot of companies have been making considerable headway. And perhaps one of the leading players in the recent past has been HDFC Life — a company that’s focused on selling long-term life insurance products. So today we thought we’ll look at how the industry is shaping up and HDFC Life’s place in the ecosystem.

Oct 16, 2020 • 5min
To wear a helmet or not
In today's Finshots, we talk about traffic violations and the impact of the recently amended Motor Vehicles Act.

Oct 15, 2020 • 7min
Why the rich keep getting richer?
In today’s Finshots, we talk about Thomas Piketty and the inequality conundrum

Oct 14, 2020 • 6min
The Basmati Wars — India vs Pakistan
In today's Finshots, we talk about rice, intellectual property and the fight for Basmati.

Oct 13, 2020 • 5min
The Great Government Gift
In today's Finshots, we talk about the government's new plan to revive demand.

Oct 12, 2020 • 4min
Cheaper Home Loans Incoming?
The Monetary Policy Committee met once again last week and while they didn’t fiddle with interest rates, there were a couple of exciting announcements.
One of them was related to home loans and that’s what we'll be discussing today.

Oct 10, 2020 • 8min
Are Cinema stocks dead?
Cinema halls are opening up next week. And so we thought maybe it’s time to look at India’s largest movie chain PVR and see what’s happening down there.


