“In the past few months, the Turkish lira has depreciated by 4.5% against the dollar, while its dollar-denominated debt stands at $172 billion or 22% of its GDP. Goldman Sachs forecasts a further 15% fall in the Turkish lira, spurring a financial crisis as it becomes more and more expensive to buy dollars to service these loans, most of which are short term. Furthermore, ‘some of the biggest beneficiaries of the Fed’s largess were . . . among the politically connected elite in emerging nations like Turkey, where vanity towers, glitzy shopping malls and even grander projects to come have become representative of the nation’s new dynamism.'”
http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/08/the-impending-collapse-of-the-global-bernanke-bubble/
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