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Inflation, exports and FED President Bernanke
From an academic perspective, Bernanke’s remarks on monetary policy were critical, but he didn’t say anything new from the perspective of financial markets. Goodish and…
How to solve a 19th-century problem?
Today, the Turkish political elite are still looking at the problem with a 19th-century bias. Why did the call of Mr. Cemil Çiçek, the speaker of Parliament, for…
Not back to the salt mines yet
Heavily discussing latest ECB and FED decisions, Turkey will come and go back to the salt mines. The school year is starting next week. Ankara will liven up soon.…
Why has Turkey always been a loser?
In the current era where growth is indexed to ideas, Turkey needs creative minds and an infrastructure to protect their products. The other day I cited the European…
Trying to avoid the damage
Government bonds and collateral the ECB received for similar operations will decrease in value and thus the ECB’s capital will shrink. Right after the 2001 crisis, the…
What would be Iran’s reply to Turkey?
It won’t be a surprise to see that Iran would give a start to its covert operations, waking its “sleeper cells” and activating its old networks. Turkish-Iranian…
Fearing the inevitable
In that case, Europe would fall into an even bigger trouble. If so, who will reimburse the damage done to the ECB? Why the European Central Bank (ECB) doesn’t initiate…
Lessons to be learned from the Samsung versus Apple lawsuit
It is for a purpose that the justice system of the US is considered functional while that of South Korea is considered functional-to-be. Last week, the jury of an…
South Africa beats Turkey in Palestine
Turkey is talking, South Africa acting for Palestine. That is an ongoing discussion between South Africa and Israel. I see two types of countries in the world: those who…
What can the ECB learn from the CBT?
The operation economist have for long been asking from the ECB resembles that the CBT had launched in 2001. One of the main pillars of the economic program initiated…
Turkey is not at the center of the world
As the center of the world is changing, has Turkey made any effort to secure itself a seat in this new geographical center? The trend of self-pity has returned in…
On the strategy in the fight against the PKK
We have to acknowledge that without providing security, other economic, social and diplomatic tools will not yield any results. After the collapse of negotiations with…