Adam Smith

As Turkey blocks Sweden and Finland’s entry into NATO, the F-35 is not a carrot the US will dangle, Adam Smith says

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is addressing the nation Tuesday about the "humanitarian and national security crisis" on the country's U.S.-Mexican border before traveling there Thursday for a firsthand look at efforts to thwart illegal immigration, reported VOA. 

The report said current plans for the modernization of the aging planes, ships and missile silos that make up the U.S. nuclear arsenal would cost 50 percent more than if the U.S. only operated and maintained its current equipment in the field.

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.

A Turkish-American DNA scientist is among the three names to win this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, the award-giving body announced on Oct. 7.

Aziz Sancar, Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, and the U.S.-based Paul Modrich won the prize for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA.

"A person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions - avarice and ambition - is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is just as often disposed to disturb the peace of society in order to gain what he so foolishly admires." (Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759.)

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."

His hectic schedule of meetings and visits to Paris, London, Rome, Frankfurt and Berlin may have kept the prolific social media-using Greek FinMin off the TL for a few days, however, on Wednesday afternoon Yanis Varoufakis squeezed in a tweet.