{"id":984709,"date":"2026-01-12T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984709"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:51:40","slug":"h-1b-visas-ai-fear-and-election-math-saurabh-mukherjea-on-why-indians-are-americas-go-to-scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/h-1b-visas-ai-fear-and-election-math-saurabh-mukherjea-on-why-indians-are-americas-go-to-scapegoat\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visas, AI fear and election math: Saurabh Mukherjea on why Indians are America\u2019s go-to scapegoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Saurabh Mukherjea, founder and chief investment officer of Marcellus Investment Managers, appeared recently on Raj Shamani\u2019s podcast, the conversation went far beyond markets and money. He explained why Indians, particularly Indian professionals in the US, are increasingly being cast as \u2018villains\u2019 in America\u2019s economic story. He explained that people across countries want the same things, and when those desires are unfulfilled, politics looks for someone to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Saurabh Mukherjea, founder and chief investment officer of Marcellus Investment Managers, appeared recently on Raj Shamani\u2019s podcast, the conversation went far beyond markets and money. He explained why Indians, particularly Indian professionals in the US, are increasingly being cast as \u2018villains\u2019 in America\u2019s economic story. He explained that people across countries want the same things, and when those desires are unfulfilled, politics looks for someone to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}