Osman Şenkul In the 7th century BC, just as Crete was a centre of civilisation among the two major islands south of the Aegean Sea, Rhodes was the main stronghold…
Chris Skinner It’s quite strange when you think about money as a lot of money has disappeared or been recreated over the years. 250 years ago, there was no US…
Levent Gürses The economic crisis that has persisted since 2018, the lockdowns and economic standstill experienced during the pandemic, the hardships brought about by the war in Ukraine, and now…
John Elkington The power of the Fool and Jester—even sometimes of the Trickster—was about licensed transgression, a formally sanctioned role that could say the unsayable precisely because it arrived wrapped…
Levent Gürses The war in Iran has begun to disrupt the delicate balance of the Turkish economy. In a process that began with fuel price rises, the acceleration of price…
Chris Skinner Let me start with a simple question. How many of you think we’re living through a period of unprecedented change in finance? We’re not living through change. We’re…
Rebecca Solnit I know progressives are supposed to be technophobes, but there is one technology we probably love more than anyone else (except the engineers who created it): renewable energy.…
Can Baydarol The concepts of ‘manufactured in the EU’ and ‘manufactured in cooperation with the EU’ have recently been the subject of much debate in our country, particularly in the…
Osman Şenkul In Iran, Reza Shah had entered into a secret alliance with Nazi Germany, providing Hitler with bases from which to attack the Soviet Union and rejecting all demands…
Levent Gürses As the war—which began with US and Israeli attacks on Iran and has gradually spread across the Middle East—enters its second week, it has started to take its…
Whilst our neighbour supports farmers, we are heading for the top spot in food inflation
Osman Şenkul In the 7th century BC, just as Crete was a centre of civilisation among the two major islands south of the Aegean Sea, Rhodes was the main stronghold…
Where did money come from?
Chris Skinner It’s quite strange when you think about money as a lot of money has disappeared or been recreated over the years. 250 years ago, there was no US…
We are heading towards stagflation; hunger is just around the corner; even if the war ends, the shock will continue…
Levent Gürses The economic crisis that has persisted since 2018, the lockdowns and economic standstill experienced during the pandemic, the hardships brought about by the war in Ukraine, and now…
Playing the fool in business and markets
John Elkington The power of the Fool and Jester—even sometimes of the Trickster—was about licensed transgression, a formally sanctioned role that could say the unsayable precisely because it arrived wrapped…
Inflation and interest rate forecasts are being revised upwards due to the impact of the war
Levent Gürses The war in Iran has begun to disrupt the delicate balance of the Turkish economy. In a process that began with fuel price rises, the acceleration of price…
From physical to digital to intelligent: The third revolution of finance
Chris Skinner Let me start with a simple question. How many of you think we’re living through a period of unprecedented change in finance? We’re not living through change. We’re…
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology
Rebecca Solnit I know progressives are supposed to be technophobes, but there is one technology we probably love more than anyone else (except the engineers who created it): renewable energy.…
The feared outcome did not materialise
Can Baydarol The concepts of ‘manufactured in the EU’ and ‘manufactured in cooperation with the EU’ have recently been the subject of much debate in our country, particularly in the…
Trump bailed out the Iranian regime and cut off the flow of oil to China
Osman Şenkul In Iran, Reza Shah had entered into a secret alliance with Nazi Germany, providing Hitler with bases from which to attack the Soviet Union and rejecting all demands…
The war is dragging on, global energy, raw materials and food markets are in turmoil, and pessimism is growing
Levent Gürses As the war—which began with US and Israeli attacks on Iran and has gradually spread across the Middle East—enters its second week, it has started to take its…