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Breaking the routine, dilemma and failing to justify
If the BRSA steps in and introduces regulations that will discourage extending credits using short term funds, the CBT's chances to succeed with the new policy framework…
I sincerely congratulate Mr. Recep Akdağ
I am of the opinion that the demonstrations could have been more comprehensive. The arbitrary decisions of the Ministry of Health in the recent period have harmed the…
What do the credit data tell?
Credit supply can be slowed down should the required reserve ratio is increased "sufficiently". The fact that such slowdown is not yet observed as shown above does not…
The highest rank in the Libyan army is colonel
If the European Union had acquired a similar insight and executed the accession process without any interruption, Turkey most likely would not have needed the…
How can the Central Bank overcome the “dilemma”?
While withdrawal of 21.6 billion liras was targeted, the CBT injected 14.7 billion liras to the market. The Central Bank of Turkey (CBT) increased the required reserve…
No wise man has been entering the industrial sector, indeed
Turkey needs an industrial policy. Deindustrialization is Turkey's biggest problem. If I were to ask you what the biggest gain of the eighty-odd-year history of the…
On the Central Bank’s dilemma
The CBT on the one hand reduced the amount of funds banks can extend in form of credits and on the other hand provided one-week maturity funds to them in order to…
Inflation rate: heads to where?
Together with the rise in crude oil and food prices, the possibility of an upwards movement in inflation rate becomes more visible. Consumer price indices have been…
The CHP’s plan is more functional than that of the AKP
Your distributing goods in the form of benefits says, "I know what you need better than you do." I have been reviewing a survey conducted in February. Inequality in…
Destabilizing interest expenditures
Turkey has a higher interest expenditure/GDP ratio than all European countries but Greece. I am now obsessed with the 'stability' issue; I have to write stably on…
2011 is 2001 for Northern Cyprus
2001 was an opportunity for Turkey. We seized that opportunity. 2011 is an opportunity for Northern Cyprus. Let us wait and see what the Turkish Cypriots do. It is…
An odd form of stability
Favorable economic developments in the recent period disguise an unpleasant form of stability. Gaddafi is in power for more than 40 years; and he is about to be…