Turkey's Currency Crisis

Why Can't Turkey Stop Its Economic Nose-Dive?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/why-can-t-turkey-stop-its-economic-nose-dive-quicktake

Why is the Turkish lira tumbling?

https://www.ft.com/content/2d678dea-9c7b-11e8-ab77-f854c65a4465

Turkey’s Limited Set of Options

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/12/turkey-crisis-widen-and-options-running-out-erdogan
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/13/erdogan-fights-losing-battle-with-trump/

Trump versus Erdogan

Matt O’Brien notes:

www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/10/trump-is-mad-that-turkeys-economic-crisis-has-made-their-currency-weaker-so-now-hes-making-it-even-weaker/

“It’d almost be funny if it were not so tragic. One economically illiterate leader is crippling his own economy and blaming everyone else for it, which then turned out to be partially correct when another economically illiterate leader decided to cripple their economy as payback for what they have done to themselves.”

Related:

http://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2018/08/populist-leaders-and-risk-of-economic.html