In this piece, I look at what "wealth" actually means the week your salary stops without warning.

A severance payment is fixed. The uncertainty it has to survive is not. This article explores the cold math of severance from that angle.

Understanding how companies cut jobs without calling it a layoff.

World War 2 had no real winners — at least not economically. Except one. This article traces how the United States emerged from the rubble of the war to anchor the entire global monetary system — and why that system eventually broke down.

This second part explores the policy side of that question – what can policymakers do about imported inflation especially in a country like India which is heavily dependent on imported oil.

This article traces how a rise in oil prices moves through transport, production, taxes, interest rates, and business pricing decisions before it finally appears as inflation in the consumer’s everyday life.