John Maynard Keynes
Welcome to the age of global reckless driving
Donald Trump will become U.S. president in a few weeks. The silence is deafening. I feel a deep anxiety around the globe, twisting and turning under the surface. Trump has already made more than a few blunders just during the transition period.
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Fresh indictment reveals alleged details of ByLock app
Prosecutors in the western province of Denizli have prepared an indictment against 60 suspects with alleged links to July 15 coup attempt due to their use of ByLock, an app that is suspected to be widely used for internal communication among Gülenists, who are believed to have masterminded the putsch.
ByLock use is an evidence of Gülen network links: Owner
The usage of ByLock, an encrypted messaging application that is said to have been used by members of the Gülen Movement under U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is accused of orchestrating the failed coup attempt of July 15, could show evidence of links to Gülen, according to a Turkish-origin U.S. citizen, who has been revealed to be the patent holder for the app.
Owner of alleged Gülenist messaging app ByLock revealed in US
A Turkish-origin U.S. citizen has been revealed to be the patent holder of ByLock, an encrypted messaging application that is said to have been used by members of the Gülen Movement under U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who was accused of orchestrating the failed coup attempt of July 15.
A small but decisive step towards rule of law in Turkey?
"The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind," writes John Maynard Keynes in the opening sentence of The Economic Consequences of the Peace. "Very few of us realize with conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated, unreliable, temporary nature of the … organization by which Western Europe has lived for the last half century."
Request on tax scale causes tension among IMF and gov’t
A comment made by a source of Greek Finance Ministry attacking IMF for its requirements on tax scale will probably cause a rift between the Greek government and Greece’s lenders.
The IMF seeks to reduce the tax-free income level for everyone applying this measure even to incomes above 40,000 euros.
Oil downturn
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent," said John Maynard Keynes (or maybe it wasn't him, but no matter). At any rate, that was the eternal verity the Saudi Arabians were counting on when they decided to let oil production rip - and the oil price collapse - in late 2014.
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Turkey's under fire ex-Central Bank governor stands behind his words
Former Central Bank Governor Durmu? Y?lmaz has told Hürriyet that he stands behind his Jan. 3 words about the relation between inflation rates and interest rates, after he was criticized by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an for "not minding his own business."