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Why is Turkey's Lira collapsing?

The currency slumped again today as the country's currency crisis deepens

Turkey's lira continues to collapse, and now seems to be causing real pain for the country's economy. So what is going on, and how can the country halt the slide? Fund manager, economist and founder of Sagam Strategy Consulting Murat Sagman gave us his take from Istanbul.
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Nick Timiraos, chief economics correspondent of the Wall Street Journal joins us to explain why central banks are trying to second guess how you feel about inflation. Nick explains how the psychology at play could tell us how long we could see high prices hang around for.
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Throughout the programme the ±«Óãtv's Jamie Robertson will be joined from Sydney by Bloomberg's Asia Finance Editor Nabila Ahmed, and by Peter Morici, Professor Emeritus at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

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  • Tue 14 Dec 2021 01:06GMT

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