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Swimming against the currency: Turkey

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A central bank struggling for independence, dwindling foreign reserves to prop up the currency and a president who just hates rates: Turkeyโ€™s economy looked shaky even before covid-19. Online dating carries on apace amid lockdowns, and it seems people are forging more emotionally intimate bonds. And the risk that humans might pass the coronavirus to their primate cousins.

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