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Turkey’s crisis and the dollar’s future

Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2018

Alastair MacLeod

Mises Institute

22nd August, 2018

 

Last week’s collapse of the Turkish lira has dominated the headlines, and it is widely reported that this and other emerging market currencies are in trouble because of the withdrawal of dollar liquidity. There are huge quantities of footloose dollars betting against these weak currencies, as well as commodities and gold, on the basis the long-expected squeeze on dollar liquidity is finally upon us.

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