The Economic Cost of Authoritarian Rule

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Turkey is on the verge of an economic meltdown that could infect the global financial system. We examine how the country’s slide toward authoritarianism helped trigger the crisis. Guest: Jim Tankersley, who covers economic policy for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
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0:39.6	Today, Turkey is on the verge of an economic meltdown that could infect the global financial system.
0:48.4	How the country slide toward authoritarianism, help trigger the crisis and may make it impossible
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