The postponement decision eased the pressure, BIST was the most rising stock exchange
Levent Gürses The postponement of the lawsuit concerning the CHP’s 38th Ordinary Congress held on 4-5 November 2023 benefited the stock market. As of Thursday, 18 September, Borsa Istanbul was…
The cost of “cost inflation”
Osman Şenkul Nasreddin Hoca was selling eggs at the market. Business was good; the eggs were selling out quickly, and Hoca would bring in a new batch and put them…
Experts: Irreversible damage may occur in Mediterranean ecosystems
Warming seas, acidification, and sea level rise threaten biodiversity, fish stocks, and key coastal ecosystems across the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Sea recorded its warmest July on record this year, with…
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…
Susan J. Brison / The stories we tell to survive
Simone Silverbush For months after she was sexually assaulted and left for dead in the French countryside more than three decades ago, philosophy professor Susan J. Brison had to stop…
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…