Güven Sak, PhD
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Erdoğan must ask Lula the secret of his success
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, popular President of Brazil, is visits Turkey today. He is the leader with biggest public support after Obama. As opinion surveys carried out…
IMF is definitely useful
I guess talking about the IMF will be subject to prior authorization from now on. What we watched on television last week showed us that to do this it is necessary to…
What is the problem of European banks?
I know that it is weekend. But I do not think there is a rule saying "weekend commentaries should be entertaining, not serious." Can weekends be time of mediation or an…
Certain things cannot be tackled by yelling
We are violently angry at banks. Mr. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, President of Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB), has been angry at them. Recently, Honorable…
We continue to not like economists
Normal 0 21 false false false TR X-NONE X-NONE Last weekend, we began with saying “no one likes economists”. Please let us continue with this topic this week. There is…
Medium run perspective of Turkey is the EU
What did we underline a while ago? We underlined that the crisis periods are the periods of "saving the day". Crises periods were not time for heroic actions for those…
IMF now stands by the poor
Global financial crisis is opening out the door of a process of transformation. Those that fail to acknowledge the transformation cannot manage it. What was the motto?…
No one likes economists
Trends in the United States of America (USA) indicate that people hate bankers the most. In the list of the most hated, corporate managers, executive board managers and…
How can export expectations get better while our share in the European Union market shrinks?
As you might remember, last Tuesday, we started asking "What is the problem in expectations surveys?" There observed something strange. Rate of those whose expectation…
How can you expect an increase in export orders given that German economy is contracting?
It appears that there is a problem. Don't you think so? Recently, 2009 growth expectations are revised downward for each of our export markets. However, business…
Did markets start to revive?
Did the markets start to revive? Do not you also notice dynamism at the markets? Recently we have been frequently hearing narratives that business activities are…
Pre-accession Economic Program (PEP) is not the expected exit strategy
This is how the mankind is; it starts to search for a 'green shoot' in the middle of the wreckage. Remember the life-at-out-blue-planet movies after post-atomic bomb…