Turkish inflation soars 36% as lira crisis flares

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  1. just out of curiosity: can a currency inflation become 100% or does that happen only when a currency is abandoned ?

  2. Erdogan: “my private economist Dr. Allah PhD says it’s the ideal moment to lower the interest rates ”

  3. [Lira Slides After Erdogan Says Islam Demands Lower Rates](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-19/turkey-s-erdogan-says-islam-demands-lower-rates-and-so-does-he)

    Who are we to judge people who voted to be closer to Allah? I admire the strength of their convictions that led them to sacrifice their life savings and elect a man close to the greatest of all gods.

    Now let’s see how it goes. I don’t know much about incantations or prophecies, but are we supposed to see a miracle happening or somethin’? Because the lower is the Lira, the closer they are to Allah, so something should happen soon, right?

  4. I just feel bad for the Turks who didn’t vote for Erdogen.

    Usually, economic problems are multi-faceted, but here, there’s an economically illiterate leader you can pin all the problem to.

  5. Well…. this is only the official number. Expert beliefe the real inflation is around 60-80%.

    Some say its even higher.

  6. Erdogan yeeted out 4 finincial ministers in only a few years just to have a yesmen on that position to show the world (and hopefully Turkey too) that Erdonomics dont work at all. Superb job mate!

    Interest rates have the reverse effect on inflation and Erdogan refuses to change his opinion on it and if he continues with it Turkey will be like Argetina the past decades or worse end up like Venezuala and Zimbabwe.

  7. Erdogan and most of the other politicians with power there are very corrupt and authoritarian, and that’s why there these destructive results.

  8. I always wonder how people manage their money and purchases in such an environment – spend all your Local currency asap or convert into US$ or € or £ as a stash?

  9. -Projected to hit 50% in January

    Holy fuck I honestly wouldn’t wish this suffering on anybody. If turkey runs out of foreign reserves they are completely fucked and if they start printing money then we could see another Venezuela

  10. There are so many things I want to say that I don’t even know how put those into words. These religious, unlearned zealots, and their fucking followers ruined the country in the last decade. Even if they leave tomorrow, it would take years to fix all the damage they’ve done, both nationally and internationally.

    Turkish people have always been thick-headed and backwards, but I thought they would react in some way when the economy started to fail. Guess what though? Some assholes are still saying that they would vote these charlatans. It is incomprehensible how blind some people are.

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