Udit Misra

Journalist @indianexpress; ex @bsindia @livemint @forbes_india @CNNnews18 @IndiaToday; @UniWestminster @CheveningIndia EconDSE

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ExplainSpeaking: Why India is the third-largest economy, not fourth or fifth

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Udit Misra

NowGoogle Once Paid $100 Million To This Indian-American Man To Retain HimIn 2011, Neal Mohan was a key player in Google's advertising and YouTube product strategy.
ExplainSpeaking: Why India is the third-largest economy, not fourth or fifth

1 week ago | indianexpress.com | Udit Misra

Dear Readers,Over the weekend Niti Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam declared that India had overtaken Japan to become the fourth-largest economy in the world. He based this claim on data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This claim reportedly led to two fairly divergent reactions. First, a wave of self-congratulation among Indians who take this particular detail as a clinching argument that the government of the day has brought about a fundamental improvement in India’s economy.
Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill

1 week ago | indianexpress.com | Udit Misra

Last week, the US House of Representatives passed what President Donald Trump calls his “one big beautiful Bill”; it is officially titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBBA) and is over a thousand pages long. The focus now shifts to the US Senate, the other house in the US Congress, to deliberate on the Bill.
Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Udit Misra

14 hours agoCharming scenes show mother tiger leading cubs through forestRare and heartwarming footage shows a mother tiger leading her ten-week-old cubs through India’s Bandhavgarh National Park. Captured on Sunday (18 May) by wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein’s guest, Dawn Sutcliffe, the moment left viewers in tears. Local guide Manjit said it was the first time the tigress had led her cubs away from their den.
Why US & China have agreed to temporarily slash tariffs

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Udit Misra

After two days of high-level negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, the United States and China on Monday announced a 90-day pause in their trade war, suspending the high tariffs and non-tariff barriers that the two countries had put in place after April 2. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEOIn a joint statement, the US and China said they were committed to establishing “a mechanism to continue discussions about economic and trade relations”. What were the tariffs until now?
IMF loan to Pakistan: why the latest tranche was passed

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Udit Misra

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday (May 9) decided to allow for “an immediate disbursement” of $1 billion (around Rs 8,500 crore) to Pakistan. This disbursal was done as part of IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to Pakistan. The 37-month EFF was approved on September 25, 2024 and provides for a total disbursement of $7 billion to Pakistan. The latest tranche brings the total disbursements under the arrangement so far to about $2.1 billion.
Tariff tracker, May 9: Why the US-UK trade deal isn’t what it seems

4 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Udit Misra

On May 8, the UK became the first country to strike a trade deal with the US since the announcement of US President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs on April 2. It was a special day for the UK and US to come together, as British PM Sir Keir Starmer reminded, since it was the 80th anniversary of VE Day or the day when Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Germany in World War 2.
Tariff tracker, May 8: How Trump’s tariffs are upending US Fed’s monetary stance

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Udit Misra

At the start of the year, most analysts expected anywhere between 2 to 4 cuts of 25 basis points in 2025. That’s because at that time the economic activity was growing robustly, unemployment rate was near target and inflation was aligning with Fed’s 2% target for the medium term. In other words, had it not been for Trump’s policies, the US Fed would have cut interest rates.
Tariff tracker, May 7: How Trump’s tariffs led to US trade deficit hitting a record high

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Udit Misra

The US trade deficit — the key variable that led Donald Trump to slap sweeping tariffs across the world — widened further in March and, in fact, hit a record high of $140.5 billion. The US trade deficit is the net result of exports and imports of goods and services for any particular month. This is ironic, as Donald Trump’s open threat since he was running the presidential campaign had been that he would impose punitive tariffs in a bid to erase the US trade deficit.
Tariff tracker, May 6: Why Trump is tariffing movies made outside the US

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Udit Misra

Even as the uncertainty around trade deals with several countries continues to linger, US President Donald Trump announced a new set of tariffs. This time his focus is on movies produced outside the US. On May 5, at 4:48 AM, Trump posted the following on Truth Social. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States.