Asif Punjwani on 05 1, 2012 | 10 Comments
Capitalism isn’t a new idea. It has been around for the last 5000 years where Gold, Silver, Copper, Salt and other scarce commodities were used as money. It is Banking and its Fractional Reserve Ban...
Asif Punjwani on 03 2, 2012 | 9 Comments
Recently Iran agreed to export 80,000 barrels crude per day to Pakistan. Pakistan requested a loan of $500 Million from Iran for the pipeline to be built. Iran refused for $500 million but agreed fo...
Asif Punjwani on 02 1, 2012 | 32 Comments
There have been recent talks about creating a new province for better administration “for the Saraiki-speaking citizens”. Apparently, dividing citizens of a country based on language would serve...
Asif Punjwani on 01 31, 2012 | 17 Comments
One Rupee was all I wanted for lunch at school during my early school days, enough to buy me one bag-a-chips, and three Rupees for Thursdays to enjoy Pepsi. This was about two decades ago. Today a ...
Asif Punjwani on 12 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
Money only holds value because there are goods and services available to buy with that money. Coconut water would be more valuable than a kilo of gold on an island. It is therefore, not the value of c...