The government appears to wish to weaken or erode the functional (if not legal) autonomy of the RBI, by imposing its will across a range of areas

Early evidence suggests that inflation targeting has been working in India in the few years since the inception of the new policy framework

The initial success of flexible inflation targeting by RBI’s monetary policy committee is undoubtedly welcome, but the acid test lies ahead

The slide in the rupee is propelled by multiple factors

The appointment of S. Gurumurthy to the RBI board suggests that the government is abandoning conventional economics in favour of its putative Indic alternative

The need for India to allow the market to freely determine the value of the Rupee while focussing on its inflation-targeting monetary policy regime.

Why has India's Monetary Policy Committee erred on overestimating inflation in the last two interest rate-setting decisions?

Based on the Mundell-Laffer supply-side approach, one can view economic policy (and reforms) in the context of three broad buckets: tax and spending policy, monetary policy, and regulatory policy

The need for the US Fed to move away from unconventional monetary policies towards fixed, rule-based inflation targeting.

Over the course of history, trust in fiat currency has most often been weakened by erratic and high inflation, and shattered after episodes of hyperinflation.