Friday, March 27, 2020
Tax cuts during recession
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
How Banks can come to the rescue
To recover from a depression, which is imminent in the near future, obviously money needs to be pumped to the economy. How to effectively do it, i have a small idea. So, basically, banks have a fixed rate for deposit and loans. I want to restructure it, so that banks lend more to the industry, still keeping it safe from collapse, especially in a depression. There should be varying interest rates for deposits as well as loans, based on the following.
Deposits
1. If the deposit is low, below a lakh or 5 lakhs( calculate according to respective countries. Please bankers and fed calculate all the numbers.) , give the least interest. So that, it will encourage people to buy goods than simply put it in banks, that is i guess huge liquidity in the economy.
2. If the deposit is high, give a good interest. Because, if someone wants to put say a 10 crores in a bank for more than a month, surely he is not doing business with that money. Let bank make best use of that money, by lending it.
Loans.
First thing, difference between deposit and loan interest should be more. That means high interest for loans, since bank is taking a huge risk, in times of depression. It has to survive, not waste resources, making already rich people more and more rich.
The most important thing in this plan is we are introducing a new score, which calculates the risk factor, Banks are taking. Not based on someone else's views. But purely based on their own bank's remittances, loans, and deposits, a particular company has done with them. This should not be done by officers, as it will lead to malpractices, but by artificial intelligence and machine learning alone. Banks can share their score with other banks and legal lenders too. Every company's loan will have varied interest rates according to the score. The score will also take into account the amount they are demanding.
Least acceptable score will have a highest interest rate ( even 20% ) and high scores will have less interest rate. Fed only puts cap on lower and upper interest rates.
The most obvious thing is more money should be pumped in the economy and i guess banks are probably the best bet as of now to take. So, high interest rates for loans should not matter, for their survival.
Also, it will to some extent encourage SMEs to have their business transactions through banks, and avoid hoarding and evading tax, because, you will have less chance of getting new loans, the next time or loan at higher interest rates. Because AI is going to reward companies having higher profits, with less interest on loans. Since, it's a safe bet.
Banks should cover the whole spectrum of loans, from the least acceptable score ( high risk ) to high score ( lowest risk ). There should a new factor based on economical performance of a country. If the factor is too low in situations like recession, the least acceptable score should be increased. As the least acceptable score increases, loan's division among indutry should be more. If the least acceptable score decreases, loan's division can be flexible based on bank's wish.
Example, if the score for loan is between 1 - 100. During normal times, we can make the least acceptable score 30 and give loan with higher interest rate, taking high risks. During recession, we can increase the least acceptable score to 50 or 60, and give loans with less interest rate, taking less risks. But , as the least acceptable score increases, loans should keep more distributed across different type of industry. Still, loans should cover from 60 to 100, not just 100. This factor ( based on least acceptable score ) should be decided by the Reserve Bank, in consultation with the government.
Dealing with Unemployment
Rule 1. If an unemployed person wants to get unemployment benefits from the government, he should constantly upgrade his skill with the latest developments in the industry or enter a new industry and acquire skills in that field. We should take this opportunity to make people more skilled and prepare for the next generation industries. Varying benefits can be paid based on the skill score they gain. Simple apps can be used to acquire skills and take tests in government centres, with the same app.
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Taking education to the right destination
Honestly i am telling you, i don't know what problem Laplace tried hard to solve. Because, i just memorized the theorem. The basic problem with the education system is we just try to remember, what someone invented, not trying to invent or solve problems ourselves. High scorers, at the maximum understand how problems are solved by someone.
To encourage students to solve problems and be an inventor, we need industry to step forward, and start universities, which admit students not based on marks, but on their inventionS, eventually recruiting them in their companies. Private universities should also be allowed to fill a part of their vacancies, by themselves, who are inventors and problem solvers, with government putting a bar only on their fee structure. Industry and private universities, operate for profit and reputation accordingly, which will naturally give more important to quality students, admitting talented inventors and problem solvers. Private companies and universities know better than any government universities on technology, to admit the best students, hence should be given a free hand on admission. These students, after given admission, should be allowed to pursue their own research and not tied by marks again. If highly reputed private universities and companies admit students this way, there will naturally be decline in number of students studying for scoring marks, and instead understand what's in the syllabus and most importantly invent new technologies and generating great ideas that will change lives, taking the education to the right destination.
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Track and stop Corona Virus spread
I want to suggest a simple device, to track and stop the spread of corona virus. We can mass produce a small RFID tag, which sends the person's mobile number or an alibi to that number, which can be found, from central database. A microphone should be attached to the Mobile phone, pinned in the collar, which detects whether it's a cough or sneeze, with the help of mobile app. Mobile phone will have a RFID reader attached to it. Suppose a person is identified to have corona virus, we can use his device to find whoever talked or stayed close to him for more than say 30 seconds. And the most important, whenever the infected coughs, microphone, pinned in his collar will sense that he is coughing or sneezing and records all other victims' RFID number( or mobile number directly ) near him in the mobile app, with the help of the nearby victims' tag, and RFID reader attached in the infected Mobile phone. So, we can completely track the spread of corona virus from person to person, contact them through their mobile phones and ask them to take a test. We can even segregate them, whether they are high risk, low risk, sure victims, by their time spent with the infected and whether they were with him, when the infected coughed or sneezed.
If we develop technology for this, we can simply create a smiley batch, with all the necessary technical products in that batch and people just need to wear the batch, connected to their cellphone, by Bluetooth or wireless. If we do research further, we can even develop smiley alone, which works on battery, later retrieving the data, so that children can also wear this. Definitely this is not rocket science. It's just a simple device. Ateast in the future, we should be ready and act immediately, before such virus outbreak starts.