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Ep 323: SVB, Banking and the State of the Economy

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Five Problems With the Banking System

The bank nifty, which measures the prices of banking stocks today and is the second most traded instrument on the stock market, has been overpriced. The Indian banking system seems to be a resource gathering mechanism for government debt that lends very little out of its overall portfolio to private persons. It's not banking is not doing what banking should do for a good market economy in some idealized conception. But then it's part of this larger picture that one can paint where so many things are broken about Indian banking.

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