 Cathy-Anne Caesar is a meteorologist at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology in Barbados. Turning now to Turkey. For months now, consumer prices there have been rising faster than almost anywhere else in the world, the result of nontraditional economic policies put in place by the Turkish president. At times, consumer inflation went up more than 80 percent. Recently, the government has turned to more mainstream financial policies to turn the tide and attract foreign investors.