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[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Erdoğan almost never lets his corrupt associates face prosecution; he usually shields them even from inquiry. This time is different. He has just accepted the resignation of his party’s No. 2, who is also his publicly ultra-pious Family Minister. She allegedly put $1.3 million (apparently ill-gotten) into the biggest Ponzi scheme in Turkish history, pulled out just before the collapse, and netted $28 million in six months, while 455,000 investors lost everything.

Whistleblowers inside the AKP have reportedly threatened to name more bigwigs, possibly Erdoğan himself. So he is in panic mode, jailing critics and pressing X, Meta, and other platforms to block accounts of dozens of Turkish influencers.

A financial crisis is brewing and could become a liquidity crisis. If Turkey’s economy spins out of control, so can its internal politics. Expect the unexpected in the days ahead.

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@DIAS There was a popular pediatrician in the 50s named Dr Spock. Probably why.

[Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer @BrammerAyse]

This week, one of our primary sources in class was Lady Mary Montagu’s account of smallpox inoculation in the early eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire. She describes elderly women inoculating children, then says she plans to bring the method back to England and have her own son undergo it. But then she says English doctors will resist it because treating smallpox is a major source of income for them.

That last line immediately made me think of all the theories about whether profitable diseases would ever truly be “cured.” I guess suspicions about the relationship between medicine and profit have been around for centuries.

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@nadidefotograf Hangi muze veya galeride sergileniyor acaba bi bilginiz var mi?

[Cevheri Güven @cevheritv]

Bir TERA videom daha yasaklandı bugün.
TERA'da pisliği henüz ortaya çıkmamışlar panikteler. Hala mahkemelerden yasak kararı aldırabilecek de güçteler.
O halde bu akşamı bekleyin...

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@DalrympleWill @nytimes Behind paywall :(

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@DIAS Highly recommend “The Expanse” sci-fi series. Just as we did historically, we will progress and expand into other territories, but will carry our human problems with us.

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@JohnFMauldin Because they are cheap. You know as well as anyone that for the consumer price is everything.

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

Prime Minister Carney Rules The World: The Biggest Week EVER

- Biggest Wealth Managers On Earth at Investment Summit
- Attends European Parliament who are full Kiss Ass Mode
- British PM starts Bromance
- French President flys in to Double Down on Ass Kissing

Not over yet

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[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@BoringBiz_ @JacobShap “Intellect” and “logic” can’t beat “belief” and “emotion.”

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

#TurkeyWatch🇹🇷: Turkey's $18.3 billion fund scandal is a result of TURKEY'S RUNAWAY INFLATION. It lured retail investors into the stock market to seek an INFLATION REFUGE.

Fin. Min. Şimşek: "No systemic risk."

GET REAL.

TURKEY'S ENDEMIC INFLATION = ONE CRISIS AFTER ANOTHER.

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@DIAS @yannispappas Wow that was a horrible impression 🤦‍♂️😂Forget about growing up around Turks, I don’t think he ever heard one speaking in Turkish.

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Turkey’s Justice Minister just admitted that elections have become a formality: “In 2028, an election will be called to re-elect our president.”

[Cumhurbaşkanlığı Aday Ofisi @CA_iletisim]

Bir davanın anatomisi: Tuzla davası…

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@TIFF_NET I truly feel sorry for those people, men and women alike. :( They have no idea what they are missing and how fundamental it is for meaning. You ignore your nature at your own peril. IMHO.

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@shaneparrish @Neko Highly recommend you follow @EricTopol regarding risks of full body scans when no symptoms are present

[Dušan Vlahović @dusanvIahovic9]

Good job 🦅🦅 @sportexresmi

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@Kahvecibrahim @HurAyse Hayirli sabahlar yani Ibrahim bey. Yeni uyandiniz.

[HonestBarbarian @HonestBarbian]

@AlderLaneEggs @marcuslemonis Any hope with #NXH then?