pushkar goel

Macro thought: This isn’t just rate-tweaking—it’s formalization + middle-class empowerment + capital deepening. A fiscal hit upfront, but designed to kickstart India’s consumption flywheel.

Relationship with money changes the most when you live close to capital markets. Because markets show you something most people never experience up close: money can be made and lost fast, and sometimes in sizes that don’t match the effort put in. That speed rewires your sense of what money even means. What once carried weight begins to feel like a number that moves. The danger isn’t just greed. It’s casualness. When money starts arriving without a visible story of labor behind it, it can lose its moral gravity. You stop treating it like stored time, and start treating it like a scoreboard. A few good trades can make you feel invincible. A few bad ones can make you feel like nothing is real. Either way, the mind stops respecting money as a consequence. And when money loses gravitas, so does risk. You start taking bets you wouldn’t have taken when money still felt heavy. You spend faster. You recover slower. You begin living like the next opportunity will always be there. Markets don’t just test your strategy. They test your relationship with value.