Güven Sak, PhD
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Demand for platinum does surge even despite the crisis
According to a recent story in the British Financial Times, the answer for the statement above is quite simple: Because the number of weddings in China rises. Let us see…
Will the Check Law slow down recovery?
Answer for the question above is affirmative. Let us see why. This is exactly a "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" situation. Attempts for a regulation…
What is Turkey’s goal in COP15?
Do you know what COP15 means? Fifteenth United Nations Climate Change conference is currently carried out in Copenhagen (COP15). The meeting focuses on two points: First…
Have you read the book “Financial Crises and Turkey”?
It would be good that you have. 2008 crisis that emerged in the United States of America as a financial crisis came to Turkey as a real sector crisis. The hurricane on…
This time there were one million people after the iron rice bowl
Let us put it more straightforward. Last week one million forty thousand people took the civil servants selection examination in China. 2010 program envisaged that 15…
Or should we write Dubai with a W?
Have you ever visited Dubai? Those who did know how unreal it looks: it is like Disneyland. There is nothing genuine; it is all imitation. At least this is the…
Have you ever looked at Turkey with scrutiny?
Things might escape from attention within the daily struggles, but they should not. Things might be shaded by the severity of the power struggle; but they should not.…
Why did Saudi Arabia finance the World Food Summit in Rome?
At the beginning of this week, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched the World Food Summit in Rome. As the media suggests, the meeting was not much…
No fire lasts forever
At the point we arrived, it will be useful to assess the situation of the climate of economic recession. The major point of discussion nowadays is: Did the signals of…
Following Brazil, Taiwan also decides to tighten foreign fund inflows. Why?
So, what do we do now? Do we wait for a third incidence to judge a conclusion as per the principle "One is a blip, second is a coincidence, third is a trend"? Or will we…
Or is Mr. Erdoğan not completely wrong? How about the caches of firms?
Do you follow the Asian economies nowadays? They are performing really well. In Asian economies, exports are quite important. Yet, world trade does not reflect an…
Why did they just leave those giant cities?
In a recent issue, Radikal daily published a news story titled: "It was a civilization as developed as Ancient Egypt; they disappeared 3600 year ago". The story told the…