Swimming against the currency: Turkey
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The Economist
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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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.
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| 1:03.7 | Like everything else, it's gone virtual. |
| 1:06.4 | Of course, for many, the early stages of dating already were, |
| 1:10.0 | but it seems some would-be lovebirds in lockdown are forging deeper, |
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