You bet your dollar-bottomed: Erdogans next gambit

Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 11:27 a.m.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\\u2019s idea for saving the lira by backing deposits with dollars means the Turkish taxpayer will end up bailing out the Turkish depositor. Our correspondent finds striking insights in 40 years\\u2019-worth of humdrum submissions to a unique sociology project. And Saudi Arabia\\u2019s multi-billion-dollar push into the cinema industry it outlawed for decades.

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