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More potential red flags in IMF’s Turkey Staff Report
To clarify upfront, I am not discussing a published document. As I detailed at a post last week, that I cannot do, as the government has refused to approve the Report. However, what I can do is speculate on what appalled the government so much, and I have already done so in my latest Hurriyet [...]
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Weekly Hurriyet column: Infidel-bashing, the government’s new pastime
Let today be known as the day of the three columns, similar to the year of the four kings- Gosh, even I wonder sometimes where I find these quotes from these obscure movies:) Anyway, today is the day of the three columns because there are three versions of this week’s Hurriyet Daily News column. There [...]
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Turkish Elections: What Now?
You probably know it already, but yesterday’s Turkish general elections ended with a resounding AKP victory. There is a short Roubini Global Economics critical issue, and you can read more details at Citi’s note, as well as at the in-depth coverage at Hurriyet Daily News, but here are my two cents: The results are close [...]
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Latest Turkish Economy Overheating Indicators
On Wednesday, we saw another mild Industrial Production, whether you look at at yearly: or monthly data: You can get the full details from Citi’s short note, but I will make a couple of observations in my usual traditon. For one thing, although there is a moderation in growth, my recent concerns still hold: I.e. [...]
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Guest column, on party economic programs
Not that it matters (Sunday’s Turkish elections already have a winner, although the AKP’s win margin is going to be quite important in terms of the post-elections economic and political landscape), but below is the promised guest column from my friend Ozlem Derici at Erste Securities on the three main parties’ economic programs. I have [...]
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Yet Another Addendum to This Week’s Column: An Economist Supports the Economist!
I still have a few things to add to this week’s Hurriyet column, which also appeared at the blog. First and foremost,venerable polling firm KONDA revealed its latest poll today (actually it was supposed to be revealed tomorrow, but it seems to have been leaked through one of their customers): June 11 May 11 Difference [...]
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Another Decent Performance
I will be posting yet another addendum to this week’s Daily News column soon, but first, let me go over the column’s performance. I managed to hit number two in terms of overall popularity…. …and number four in terms of comments received. So a silver an an almost-made-it-to-the-podium… Not a bad week, I would say:)
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New Turkish Government Game: IMF-Bashing
I was planning to write on this last week, but better late than ever: Just before they started bashing the Economist, the government, or at least Econ tzar Babacan, did a small IMF-bashing late last week: First, Erdal Saglam, one of the most “connected”, if not best, economics /business journalists in Turkey wrote in a [...]
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Addendum to Hurriyet column: An economist supports the Economist!
The government opened fire on the Economist article that inspired my latest Hurriyet column soon after it began circulating in cyberspace. First, it was Egemen Bagis, Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator, who boldy stated at his Twitter account that the article had been ordered from Turkey. Then, PM Erdogan called the magazine [...]
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Weekly Hurriyet column: An economist supports the Economist!
Below is my Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review column for this week, which you can also read at the Daily News website. There have been interesting developments over the weekend, such as strong government reactions to the Economist article, so I plan to do an addendum sometime today. So without further delay, on to [...]
