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Swimming against the currency: Turkey
Swimming against the currency: Turkey
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19 minutes
Released:
May 21, 2020
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Podcast episode
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A central bank struggling for independence, dwindling foreign reserves to prop up the currency and a president who just hates rates: Turkey’s economy looked shaky even before covid-19. Online dating carries on apace amid lockdowns, and it seems people are forging more emotionally intimate bonds. And the risk that humans might pass the coronavirus to their primate cousins.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer
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Released:
May 21, 2020
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