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Re:Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments by nly on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:21AM (#26831531)
Could be heading to much higher central bank rates there soon then?

Historical context: https://tradingeconomics.com/turkey/interest-rate

Re:Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments by mrtksn on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:46AM (#26831747)
See, Erdogan has this unorthodox economical theory that if you lower the interest rates, the inflation will decrease and the Turkish lira will stabilize.

The last central bank head was fired after increasing the rates. Erdogan consistently installed figureheads to high ranking positions to implement his theories and those who failed at it were swiftly removed.

The previous Ministry of Treasury and Finance is married to his daughter, for example. The new governor of the central bank is a low grade academician who was paddling Erdogan’s theories in his column at a pro-Erdogan newspaper.

Turkey is that close to become Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan at least has gorgeous horse statues.

Re:Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments by TicklishTiger on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:41AM (#26831713)
Is that the interest rate at which the turkish central bank lends out money?