On 7–8 March, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Intelligence Chief Ibrahim Kalin visited Washington. The trip garnered attention as it marked Turkiye’s first official visit to the US following the conclusion of the ‘Sweden for F-16’ deal, whereby Ankara accepted Stockholm’s accession to NATO in exchange for US Congressional approval of the sale of 40 F-16s […]
The tragic events that unfolded in Odessa in the spring of 2014 and for which Kiev never allowed an independent international investigation, served as only one of the catalysts for the present conflict engulfing Ukraine, where Russia is carrying out a special operation to demilitarise and de-Nazify the country. Kiev authorities have been hunting down […]
Does cheap money and credit make us richer? Does more money and credit create more stuff, or better stuff? Do they make us happier and more productive? Or do these twin forces actually distort the economy, misallocate resources, and degrade us as people? These are fundamental questions in an age of monetary hedonism. It is […]