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29 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
#EconomicSurvey Quick thread on interesting/important takeaways:

1) They are pegging nominal GDP growth in FY22 at 15.4%. That helps the budget math.

bloombergquint.com/economy-financ…
2) Survey makes a case for continued fiscal support. Says restraint in FY21 leaves room for support in FY22.

Argues in different chapters that higher growth will ensure sustainability of debt.

bloombergquint.com/economy-financ…
3) Survey makes a case for greater focus on core inflation. Comment comes ahead of a review of the FIT.

bloombergquint.com/budget-day-202…
4) Survey thinks another asset quality review is needed. Suggests the earlier one wasn't particularly effective.

This one was a surprise.

bloombergquint.com/business/econo…
5) Commenting on the new farm laws, Survey argues these are a remedy, not a malady.

bloombergquint.com/business/econo…
6) Bangladesh's better-than-India export performance is sore point. The survey tries to explain.

bloombergquint.com/budget-day-202…
7) It acknowledges that we are plagued by over regulation. bloombergquint.com/law-and-policy…
8) Finally, it suggests a rating agency like organisation for healthcare. (Like we don't have enough issues with regular rating agencies.

bloombergquint.com/economy/econom…

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Last week, RBI issued new draft rules for housing finance companies. Until recently, HFCs were under NHB. This was transferred to RBI post the DHFL fiasco.
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FM says 15 measures to be announced today.

- Collateral free loan for MSMEs upto Rs 3 lakh crore.
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1/n A thread on some of the points Raghuram Rajan makes on monetisation:

1) The government’s priority should be to protect the economy and spend what’s needed. It’s inability to finance itself or fears of monetisation should not be a constraint....
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Hence, it gets parked back at the RBI reverse repo window. 3/n
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Answers to two questions on Yes Bank getting clearer:

1) What was the real quality of the bank's loan/investment book?

2) Will depositors keep the faith?
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That worked out to 38% of the corporate loan book was bad.
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THREAD: RBI Governor Announcements

- MPC met over the last days. CUTS RATES BY 75 BPS
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