Turkey’s economy is losing momentum. In the first quarter of 2025, annual GDP growth slowed to just 2% , down sharply from 5.1% in 2023...

For decades, economics ruled the world stage. Markets dictated policy, and political choices were increasingly constrained by economic...

Trade wars don’t kill trade entirely, but they shrink and reroute it. That’s exactly what we’re seeing as tensions between the United...

When Mehmet Şimşek was brought back to lead Turkey’s economic policy  in June 2023, it was marketed as a return to reason . After the...

In an earlier analysis, I cautioned that China’s manufacturing-driven growth was vulnerable to both internal demand weaknesses and...

There are two major existential threats facing humanity today: climate change  and artificial intelligence (AI) . Each poses immense...

The persistent structural imbalances in the global economy, notably the significant current account deficits of the United States...

The Turkish economy exhibits multidimensional fragility in production, employment, and public finance. These vulnerabilities are not...

The Gulf states, traditionally known for their oil wealth, are now channeling investments into AI infrastructure. Saudi Arabia's...

The U.S. and China have agreed to roll back some of the harshest tariffs imposed during the latest round of their trade conflict. For...

For decades, the United States attracted global capital through robust economic growth, market liquidity, and high returns. However, this...

Beyond Capitalism’s Contradictions After interrogating the structural contradictions of capitalism, its entanglement with ecological...

Capitalism and the Logic of Exploitation Is capitalism structurally racist? Is racism a contingent byproduct of capitalism’s historical...

The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter of the year. It shrank by 0.3% on an annualized basis. At first glance, this datum...

“Economists should be like dentists,” John Maynard Keynes once said , technical, precise, and practical. Yet, for all their technical...

In prevailing economic discourse, capitalism is typically understood as a market system, a neutral mechanism through which supply meets...

Introduction Ekrem İmamoğlu’s imprisonment has set in motion a turbulent process whose outcome is uncertain. Where will this lead Turkey?...

March 19, 2025 marked a turning point for Turkey, where political and economic fractures began to accelerate. The Minister of Finance and...

In almost just a couple of months, Donald Trump has rolled back over a century of U.S. trade liberalization, plunging the global economy...

To better understand the political crisis that Turkey has fallen into today, one must go back to 2015. In June 2015, the AKP (Justice and...