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This week, Jason Tuvey, Capital Economics senior emerging markets economist, joined to talk about the sharp selloff in Turkish assets after President Erdogan ousted the country's central bank governor and what comes next for the country's economy and financial markets. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith explained why local price changes aren't inflation. Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih discussed Intel's ambitious bid to regain its manufacturing lead. Then Sridhar Ramaswamy, a former senior vice president at Google, who ran the company's ad business for fifteen years, reacted to the House tech hearing and discussed whether these companies' business models will ever be put under threat.
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