Loading ...Lira Craters To Record Low After Erdogan Orders Central Bank To Slow Inflation By Cutting Rates
By now, even the shoeshine boy knows that central banks are one-print trick pony farcical joke, one which is exposed not just by cryptos which have emerged as a clear alternative to fiat currencies, but by central banks themselves who are adopting their own digital currencies knowing well that the days of traditional paper money are numbered.
And yet within the giant Venn Diagram of the “big farce”, there is a smaller Venn Diagram, which is basically everything and anything Turkey-related, and whose farcical content is exponentially more concentrated because while central banks have become the laughing stock of the financial world in its twilight days before the upcoming great reset, nothing is as funny as Turkey’s despotic ruler and one-man government-cum-central bank, Erdogan, inverting central bank orthodoxy on its head without a trace of sarcasm.
That’s precisely what happened moments ago when the Turkish despot president, who just two months ago fired his central bank governor – the second such sacking in 3 months – for hiking rates too much, announced that he had spoken with the new Turkish central bank governor, and said that “we most lower rates” – read Erdogan’s puppet at the CBRT now has a clear order – to, get this, slow inflation: