Economics of losing weight and other New Year’s Resolutions
Now that I have my laptop, OK not “my” laptop but at least “a” laptop, I can post Monday’s (Dec. 29) Hurriyet Daily News column as well. New Year is the time of, obviously, New Year’s Resolutions, and...
View ArticleSummary of Turkey in 2014: !Redrum
I use the first two columns of the year to summarize the past year’s economic agenda and share my predictions for the new year. The first one is much easier, as I have more than 100 of my columns to...
View ArticleThe Grand Bu-da-peşkeş Hotel
I had very high expectations from “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, the latest Wes Anderson movie which was nominated for nine Oscars on Jan. 15, four days after winning the best musical or comedy at the...
View ArticleQE será, será
I always dismissed arguments that the eurozone’s time as an economic power was up, pointing out the strengths of the common currency area. But I finally realized that I have been wrong all along. I...
View ArticleThe economics of radical religious terrorism
The Charlie Hebdo attack has led many to claim that – or at least question why – Islam is associated with terrorism. I would reverse the order of causality the question implies. We must first try to...
View ArticleThe deal that may make or break the eurozone
It is no secret that the top priority of the new Greek government will be to negotiate a reduction in the country’s debt – as well as to broker softer terms on the austerity conditions forced by its...
View ArticleThe tsar and the sultan (queen) meddle with monetary policy
Governor Erdem Başçı did indeed save the best for last during his briefing on the Central Bank’s first Inflation Report of the year on Jan. 28. At the Q&A session, he said the monetary policy...
View ArticleDickens and Gatsby on Turkey’s poor and working children
Like my friend Esther’s father Jamie, I am a Charles Dickens fan because of the novelist’s exquisite use of the English language. I recently realized that I should also read Dickens to understand...
View ArticleCritical Week for the Turkish economy
At first look, the domestic economic agenda looks light this week, with purchasing managers’ indices, preliminary exports and inflation being the main data releases. However, it may end up being the...
View ArticleOn Turkish inflation, becoming a traitor and other demons…
I am going to share my latest column, on Turkish inflation, but before that, I wanted to summarize my month away from blogging, which was quite interesting, to say the least… In my Friday Hurriyet...
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