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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…
Does the expected recovery take place?
In the last two days, important production data was announced: September industrial production index and October capacity utilization ratio. These two series in general…
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…
Turkey was affected severely, because...
Compared with historical average growth rate, Turkey is one of the countries demonstrating the worst performance among countries in the same group. For instance, among…
Why were we affected this severely?
Table 1 gives the difference between estimated 2009 growth rates and average growth rate for the last four decades for certain countries. Those countries were not…
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…
Who would like a new Demirbank incident?
I believe that no one would like a new Demirbank incident nowadays. Would you? No, none of you would. The question in the title is exactly what the recent "What shall we…
We should not curse inflation targeting regime
On Tuesday October inflation rate was announced; we learn that the pace of increase in consumer prices is 5 percent. I have not been talking about inflation for a while.…
How did the US economy grow? What did Turkey miss?
American economy grew by 3.5 percent in the third quarter of 2009. Thus the free fall of the economy came to an end, period of recovery begin. So, are we done now? No,…
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When will the early elections be held?
News that early elections can be called started to come to the forefront. What can be the date of early elections? Of course this question has various dimensions, but I…
Environment is now the core: Why did Apple abandon US Chamber of Commerce?
Environmental movements were at the edge of the system until today. They were opponents. But it appears that they will from now on be at the very core of the system. 21…