by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 6, 2016 | All, Music, Op-Ed
Excerpt of Liner Notes by Douglas Brinkley and Kabir Sehgal From the album Presidential Suite by Ted Nash Big Band No matter the era, great political speeches stand the test of time. Like most masterful pieces of art, these enduring orations stay with us, convince, or...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jun 8, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
He doesn’t have super powers. But Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, is trying to save the planet. Modi is currently on his fourth official trip to the United States and today he will be in Washington, D.C. addressing Congress. Among the many topics he...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jun 2, 2016 | All, Liner Notes, Music
Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom Ted Nash Big Band Liner Notes By Douglas Brinkley, Kabir Sehgal Introduction Speech is a form of art: an expression of human creativity that is appreciated for its beauty or emotional resonance. The great minds of...
by Kabir Sehgal | Apr 30, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
Cash is still king. With the spate of mobile payment innovations, from Apple’s Apple Pay to the blockchain, you would think that the days of using cash are numbered. Indeed, mobile payment transactions are growing quickly, from $8.71 billion in the United States...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 16, 2016 | All, Op-Ed
On January 7, on a brisk winter evening, a throng of the money-obsessed gathered at the Waldorf Astoria, on Park Avenue in New York. But unlike many meet-ups at this Manhattan moor, this occasion wasn’t marked by hedge fund managers, investment bankers, and corporate...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 10, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
If you want to buy a stock, there’s an app for that. But there should also be a list for it: a catalog of investment criteria that you check before you decide to buy or sell. In her professional and personal inquiry into the value and importance of...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 2, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
If you want to make a dollar, it helps to give a dollar…and another and another. On this, the third anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, a new study suggests that companies that make onetime donations to relief efforts should continue their philanthropic activities in the...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 28, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Who thought the issue of free trade would split the GOP? The GOP candidates disagree strongly on whether the latest massive free-trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), should become the law of the land. Before examining the differences among the...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 21, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Bankers are chained to their desks, figuratively. Now they are locking themselves in a room, literally. No, it’s not a prison cell, as even Ben Bernanke wanted more bankers thrown in the slammer. But this room is filled with three little pigs — and they...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 13, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Tim Seymour is a seminal voice on emerging market investing on Wall Street. He is a fixture on CNBC’s Fast Money and the founder of EmergingMoney, which provides daily investment insights for the developing world. He knows whereof he speaks, having lived in an...
