Lira Doomsayers Are Preaching to the Converted on YouTube
People shop at a market in Istanbul on Feb. 2.
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The audience that Turkey’s central bank most needs to break the dollar’s hold on the economy isn’t tuning in.
Instead, the attention of hundreds of thousands of Turks is on YouTube, where a cottage industry of self-styled analysts, economists and journalists has been broadcasting that the worst is yet to come for the lira.