Murat's Musings
Populism: A key worry of our times
Date:08Apr2017
‘Populism’ is receiving a lot of attention lately, which has, most recently, made it to a 61-page report by the Hedge Fund (the largest, apparently), the Bridgewater Associates. The paper
A Turkish Economy 101 Chart?
Date:30Mar2017
A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say, and this could be the Turkish Economy version. I like this chart below, because it says a lot to me at least about how the Turkish economy
Europe at 60 (and readings on how euro survived)
Date:27Mar2017
The European Union celebrated the 60th year of its existence recently, which has evolved from a small community (the European Coal and Steel Community) of 6 founding member states (Belgium,
“Trump rally” or “SS is over rally”?
Date:25Mar2017
I get easily confused, and I like it very much when people (usually much smarter people than me) help me clear my confusions. One such incidence concerned the so-called Trump rally —
After “Beautiful Deleveraging” comes “Beautiful Normalization”
Date:18Mar2017
Mohammed El-Erian wrote a nice piece in the FT on monetary normalization in the U.S. ahead of the FOMC’s March meeting – his reference to a “beautiful normalization”, used twice in the article
What these musings (or links) are all about?
Date:01Mar2017
As you will realize pretty quickly, this is really not a blog post. I just pull together some stuff –mainly some interesting hyperlinks – on issues and topics that interest me (primarily on