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Marc Edward Hoffman is an American writer and former emerging markets analyst who has lived in Istanbul for the past nine years. He has written about Turkish politics and culture for The Nation and Bookforum and about Istanbul restaurants for Culinary Backstreets. He is currently working on a political and economic history of the Turkish Republic. On Twitter: @M_E_Hoffman

Turkey | May 24, 2018

The unorthodox theory behind Erdogan's monetary policy

Economists and investors are not buying the controversial economic theory invoked by Turkey’s president to justify low interest rates in the face of high inflation and the lira's collapse.

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