Cetin Ciner
@ProfCiner
Finance professor at UNCW. International finance, commodities and financial analytics.
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
For the first time, Israeli human rights groups say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
It is clear the memo went out in recent days among Western leaders to once again try to appease public fury at the genocide they're collectively responsible for, trotting out in front of cameras to do their best impression of human beings. Nobody's fooled. See you in the Hague.
The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting. The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance. This humanitarian catastrophe must end.
Israeli Jews overwhelmingly support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, they are less but still somewhat supportive of the IDF killing all Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli leaders represent the Israeli public.
After 21 months of the Gaza genocide, the Australian govenment has finally begun issuing sanctions... against a Greens Senator.
We need nothing short of the mass arrest, detention, and trial of every Western politician that defended, supported, and facilitated genocide in Gaza. There is no possible future for humanity without it.
Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens | California theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH. For the first time, Israeli war crimes suspects have been arrested and interrogated in Europe over war crimes in Gaza. This follows a criminal complaint filed by @Glan_Law & the @HindRFoundation in Belgium. 🧵hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/b…
Why invest at razor thin margins, when you can make easy money in finance? And if things go south, the Fed will always have your back. x.com/EPBResearch/st…
The most effective way for an economy to grow is for the private sector to invest & grow the capital stock. From 1947-07, the private sector invested ~7% of GDP in new structures, equipment & IP. From 07-today, it's been ~4%. This is around $1T of missing investment per year!
Stock buybacks and dividends have consumed more than 90% of corporate profits for the past decade. It is impossible to re-industrialize the US without curbing buybacks (as before 1982), and going back to the "retain and reinvest" model that prevailed before.
Who are the real wealth creators? The bankers, the corporate lawyers, the marketeers and the CEO's? Or the teachers, nurses, garbage collectors, plumbers, cleaners, care workers, etc.?
Half a million Palestinians in Gaza are facing catastrophic levels of food insecurity, while one million are at emergency levels. More than 70,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, as Israel continues to block food and specialized nutritional aid.
Breaking🚨: Medical sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah have confirmed to Al-Jazeera that an 18-month-old girl has died of malnutrition inside the hospital wards. People are fainting in the streets and arrive in influxes as they fall from fatigue and hunger.
BREAKING: Israel has killed over 81 Palestinian civilians in Gaza since dawn today. 25 were executed while standing in line for food. This isn’t self-defense. It’s deliberate, methodical mass murder.