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Roubini Topic Archive: Major Economies
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Modern times
Below is the weekly guest column by Taylan Bilgic, which was published on Friday at Hurriyet Daily News. As usual, my comments are right below the column: [Coupled with an immense concentration of capital in the hands of multinationals, the highly interconnected nature of today’s production lines is triggering events that would baffle any observer. [...]
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Weekly guest column: As the charade comes down
Below is the weekly guest column by Taylan Bilgic, which was published today at Hurriyet Daily News. My comments are right below the column: [Yesterday’s market turmoil was indeed mind boggling: Copper tumbling to a below $8,000 per ton, euro crashing to $1.345, Brent oil shedding more than $4 a barrel in a matter [...]
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Back Again with Weekly Guest Column: Untaxing the Rich
I had another one-week sabbatical from blogging: The agony of defeat in Eskisehir, the hospitality of my friends there and catching up with friends in Ankara, where I am now for a consulting gig, all kept me quite busy. Speaking of Ankara, I am in our nation’s capital for a consulting gig on Turkish politics. [...]
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Weekly guest column: Looking beyond the markets
Below is the weekly guest column from Taylan Bilgic, which was published at the Daily News website on Friday- as usual, my comments are right below. [The rollercoaster events of the past few weeks in the global markets have shown to all that the “ghost of crisis past,” that has been haunting the advanced capitalist [...]
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Odds and Ends on Turkey
As I noted in the previous post, I am taking it easy for a while, so here’ s some odds and ends from the past two weeks. You may think of this as an addendum to the last two Daily News columns: Turkish Politics: In the column about my London impressions, I mainly talked about [...]
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Weekly Hurriyet Column: Did you hear about Morgan’s?
Since I just started blogging after a long absence, I thought I might take it easy for a while before delving into rigorous analysis. So I am starting with odds and ends: Below is my Hurriyet Daily News column for this week, which you can also read at the Daily News website (it was published, [...]
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Weekly guest column: The god that failed
Below is the weekly guest column from Taylan Bilgic, which was published at the Daily News website yesterday- as usual, my comments are right below, but note that I guess I am not the only one at the Daily News who likes movie references; the title is paying homage to one of the first books [...]
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Weekly guest column: Foreclosure of a dream?
Here’s the regular weekly guest column by Taylan Bilgic of the Hurriyet Daily News, which was published on Friday. As usual, my comments are right below the column. [The political squabble in the United States over the federal debt ceiling has ended, but as the past few days have demonstrated, concerns about the health [...]
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Guest column, Return of the political economy
Worrying about foreign currency open positions, retail deposits, TurkStat, Turkish politics and the like, a whole weekend passed, and I almost forgot the usual weekly guest column by Taylan Bilgic, which was also published in the Hurriyet Daily News on Friday. Here it is, with my comments right below the column. [The post-global-crisis, economic [...]
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An addendum to the addendum
My friends at Turkey Data Monitor contacted me to tell me that they, after all, have some global data. Here’s Turkey’s inflation in comparison to advanced countries: And BRIC + N11: All numbers are period averages. For the advanced countries, what really matters for Turkey is the US and EU, so we could say there [...]
