Chris Skinner Discover how fintech is transforming small businesses, from mobile payments and AI tools to why the next unicorn might be run from home. I’ve run a small, independent…
Can Baydarol In my last article entitled Comparison, I attempted to compare the conditions of the economic crisis we experienced in the early 2000s with those of the economic crisis…
Levent Gürses The Central Bank made a significant cut in its policy interest rate, in line with expectations. The one-week repo auction rate was cut by 250 basis points to…
Osman Şenkul In his famous book ‘The Republic’, the Greek philosopher Plato states, ‘The servants of the state (civil servants) must serve without accepting any gifts; those who do not…
By Senior Experts Art Conservators and Restorers Venizelos G. Gavrilakis and Vaia A. Karagianni Ivan Aivazovsky, one of the most celebrated maritime painters of the 19th century, created luminous seascapes…
Noam Chomsky (The Progressive)¹ The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has recently been set to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination. The analysts…
Chris Skinner Twenty years ago, four critical things happened: cloud computing became mainstream, the smartphone was launched, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper; and the global financial crisis killed all…
Can Baydarol Even the title I chose for this article made me realise how ‘outdated’ I am, and it did cross my mind that the young people reading this would…
Levent Gürses In August, monthly inflation stood at 2.04 per cent, exceeding expectations of 1.79 per cent. According to Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data, annual inflation continued to decline due…
Every year, the world produces record quantities of plastic. In 2021, according to the OECD, more than 400 million tonnes of plastic were produced worldwide, twice as much as in…
How small businesses are driving innovation in finance
Chris Skinner Discover how fintech is transforming small businesses, from mobile payments and AI tools to why the next unicorn might be run from home. I’ve run a small, independent…
Is it sustainable?
Can Baydarol In my last article entitled Comparison, I attempted to compare the conditions of the economic crisis we experienced in the early 2000s with those of the economic crisis…
The Central Bank cut interest rates, the dollar rose, the stock market fell…
Levent Gürses The Central Bank made a significant cut in its policy interest rate, in line with expectations. The one-week repo auction rate was cut by 250 basis points to…
Plato: You cannot enjoy kleptocracy without trampling on democracy
Osman Şenkul In his famous book ‘The Republic’, the Greek philosopher Plato states, ‘The servants of the state (civil servants) must serve without accepting any gifts; those who do not…
A mastery conservation and restoration of Ivan Aivazovsky
By Senior Experts Art Conservators and Restorers Venizelos G. Gavrilakis and Vaia A. Karagianni Ivan Aivazovsky, one of the most celebrated maritime painters of the 19th century, created luminous seascapes…
The clock is ticking
Noam Chomsky (The Progressive)¹ The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has recently been set to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination. The analysts…
AI is bigger than the smartphone
Chris Skinner Twenty years ago, four critical things happened: cloud computing became mainstream, the smartphone was launched, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper; and the global financial crisis killed all…
A comparative history of crises
Can Baydarol Even the title I chose for this article made me realise how ‘outdated’ I am, and it did cross my mind that the young people reading this would…
We grew in the second quarter thanks to construction, but we cannot control inflation
Levent Gürses In August, monthly inflation stood at 2.04 per cent, exceeding expectations of 1.79 per cent. According to Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data, annual inflation continued to decline due…
Recycling is cool, reducing is better: Fighting plastic pollution at source
Every year, the world produces record quantities of plastic. In 2021, according to the OECD, more than 400 million tonnes of plastic were produced worldwide, twice as much as in…