History will remember him for how he fumbled the ball in the past couple of weeks.

The November elections were more a loss for established parties than a win for newbies.

The ultimate price is paid by the confused voter, who cannot put two and two together.

Now that the banks are letting the market dictate things, they deserve a pat on the back.

Nepal needs to free itself from the shackles of dogmatic leaders in their 60s and 70s.

There is room for the Ministry of Finance to act like a big brother should it choose—wrongly—to do so.

There is a need to balance the environment and development, but it's not the central bank's job.

They do not command the respect they deserve in government policy or people’s minds.

Greater electricity use can not only cut the fuel bill, but also clip a potential source of imported inflation.

Money that should have gone to the corporate coffers is going to the shareholders’ pockets.

The central bank as a regulator has responsibilities, not the least of which is investor protection.

Ideally, politics and central banking should be like oil and water. But we do not live in a perfect world.

The rise in margin debt is a signal that investors’ risk appetite has gone up.

Companies should be the ones to decide if and when to merge, not government edicts.

With leverage in trading, any gains get multiplied. But so do the losses.