Union Budget 2009-10 can be termed as Rasna delivered in a Mirinda bottle. Functionally there are no problems with the Budget 2009-10, but it certainly didn’t meet the expectations that India Inc had with it. It simply lacked the expected Fizz!
The Finance Minister presented the Economic Survey 2008-09 in the parliament on July 2nd 2009. He expressed optimism that India could achieve 7.75 per cent GDP growth in 2009.
Greed & Fear have been and would be the two indisputable factors that would drive the markets. Factors that led to this global meltdown are linked to subprime lending losses in US (3 trillion dollars and counting according to some estimates).