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choroalp ,

Its sad to see how my country is going shittier every fucking day

thelastknowngod ,

It’s fucking stupid to do it all at once but I think this should have happened ~5 years ago. Raising interest rates are how you fight inflation… We wouldn’t be in a situation where it costs 500 TL for one sucuk if they started doing this well before covid.

choroalp ,

Fax.

randon31415 ,

Someone finally convinced them that lowering interest rates didn’t fight inflation.

alienanimals ,

Remember when Turkey had a terrible earthquake made worse by their president Erdogan’s blatant greed and selfishness?

How about when Turkey’s president, Erdogan came to American soil and had his guards attack both protestors and US secret service?

Erdogan is a piece of shit.

madcaesar ,

40% interest?? Is this true lol wtf are credit cards over there then? 80%??

Habahnow ,

Probably higher. Turkey has experienced an inflation rate of about 80%. So CCs probably have a higher rate because of that

stifle867 ,

I feel like this just absolutely HAS to be sarcasm right?

Really impressive move by the CBRT [Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey] - probing their orthodoxy and getting well ahead of expectations," he said in a note.

“These guys and girls are serious about fighting inflation,” he added. “We need to give them credit for that.”

Habahnow ,

Some missing context that might help: with turkey seeing inflation rates of up to 80% (yes eighty), their leader did the opposite of what economists recommended and kept interests rates low. Chaos continued to ensue. The fact that now, turkey is finally changing their decision and increasing interest rates, and aggressively so at that, is promising for the country(compared to their previous trajectory)

stifle867 ,

It would have been a well-advised idea had it been done when it actually mattered. I’m no economic expert but wouldn’t drastically swinging the other way also lead to inflation? For example (made up numbers) if $10,000 is the same as $1 a year ago (low interest rate) and now that $10,000 accrues 80% interest, that would just cause even further inflation?

Tyfud ,

It reduces spending, because saving is now exceedingly optimal.

Less spending means inflation generally comes down because companies lower prices to meet the lack of demand.

But yes, too high and it can cause even worse inflation, assuming an even capital distribution among the people.

stifle867 ,

It’s incredibly complex to accurately predict what will happen and this is entirely plausible. I can also imagine there being people who have (example) $10,000, wait a year for it to be $18,000, and spend the $8,000 as “free money”. Rather than saving it which won’t put you ahead of others as they also benefit from the 80% interest (perhaps more so). I’m guessing that’s why there’s the caveat of even capital distribution which hasn’t happened anywhere in the history of life on Earth at any point in time presumably.

Habahnow ,

Yeah before is better than now, but now is better than later.

To your second point, I’m not entirely certain either, but my understanding is that with a high interest rate, it cuts spending which would drive down inflation. It does this by encouraging people to save (“wow savings interests rates based off of an 80% interest rate!”) And discouraging people from buying\getting loans (“buy a home? With 80% interest?! No”). With less spending, companies have to begin to drop prices or increase the amount of product offered to encourage buying.

Kyrgizion ,

“Hmm, pouring oil on this fire has only made it blaze higher the last few times. Better try it again, surely this time it’ll work as long as I use more oil!”

stifle867 ,

“Fighting fire with fire” as a monetary policy 🤣

Pancito ,
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Fighting fire with oil

Pancito ,
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Fighting fire with oil.

Kyle_The_G ,

that’ll do it.

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