Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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First up, though, Shopkeepers in Turkey are burning symbolic money.

They're trying to draw attention to the economic policies of President Richard Tayyip Erdogan,

who might as well be burning actual money. One of them said, we cannot sleep until morning.

Unpaid rent is piling up.

Turkey's economy is in crisis, or rather an ongoing crisis, has suddenly got much worse.

Inflation is soaring, 20% officially but probably more, and the Turkish lira is sinking.

At one point this week, it fell as much as 15% in a few hours.

Basic economic wisdom would suggest that the central bank raise interest rates to crimp the money supply, but the president is working to some unconventional wisdom.

In a speech on Monday, President Rajab Tai Erdogan defended his central bank's interest rate

cuts and suggested that he was deliberately

pursuing a weaker currency to drive growth.

Piotr Zeletsky is the economist Turkey correspondent and is based in Istanbul.

He promised to lift the, quote, scourge of interest rates from people's backs.

He also said he, Turkey, was waging an economic war of independence and promised to stand firm.

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