Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Turkey has been limping from one currency crisis to the next since 2018.

More and investors have cashed out inflation has hit 80 percent, yet somehow the economy

has kept going and growing.

We ask how the country keeps defying economic gravity.

And at the age of 96, Britain's Queen Elizabeth is slowing down.

This year, her crown attended Parliament's opening without her, so Prince Charles has

taken on more royal duties.

We ask how well he's been able to follow in his mother's footsteps.

But first, for years Sri Lanka's troubles had gone from bad to worse.

Mired in a debt crisis, its citizens endured shortages of food, fuel and basic services.

All while a diagnostic family clung to power, the Rajapaksas.

Last month, after extended protests, demonstrators stormed the presidential palace refusing to

leave until the president had resigned.

The fall of Gota Baya Rajapaksa was cheered by thousands on the streets of the capital

Colombo.

And since then, a new president has been sworn in.

Five time Prime Minister and now President Ronald Vikramasanga is charged with turning

the country around.

Since he took office, the violence has dwindled, and Colombo is a far more peaceful place.

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