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Harms of globalization
In 2000, ratio of Turkish exports to national incomes was around 10.4 percent. This rate gradually increased in upcoming years; for instance reached 15.2 percent in 2005…
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…
Can things get worse?
I know it is an unpleasant title to put at the National Sovereignty and Children's Day; however, current state of affairs validates this question. Here 'worse' refers to…
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…
Unemployment rate forecasts
Recently unfavorable data are being announced one after another. At the top of these unfavorable developments was the unemployment figures announced Wednesday. New data…
An important future problem of Turkey
Along with the intensification of the global crisis, i.e. around the beginning of fourth quarter of 2008, to negative developments frightened Turkey: Fall in exports and…
State Minister Mr. Mehmet Şimşek is not completely wrong
When will the Turkish economy step on the recovery path? When will liquidity start to circulate in the market? Can recovery start alone? This is the issue we must focus…
Risk of negative growth as well in 2010
A step in the right direction is taken after a significant delay. Forecasts about macroeconomic indicators were revised and a more realistic picture was presented. What…
It is good that the economic administration has left behind the denial period
Turkey, with almost a six-month delay, has for the first time faced the global economic crisis. Sorry, Turkey has for the first time "officially" faced the global…
Is the recovery starting?
To begin with, I would like to refer to the dual distinction I made months ago: the real sector and potential developments in global financial markets. With 'real…
Precondition of increasing production is to increase domestic demand
The most interesting data announced last week was the data on automotive sector. Because the data announced was for the month where a significant tax cut was introduced.…
Honorable Prime Minister of Turkey, have you ever watched “Alo Presidente”?
Please watch. Did you know that Hugo Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela, is also a television star in Venezuela? Yes, he is literally a television star. Since 1999,…