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2020 article about comparisons between Trump and Caesar.

>Most objectionable to his critics, however, was the explosive form of his message, which threatened to tear the fabric of the state apart. Like Trump, Caesar spoke directly to the people, railing against traditional elites, complaining about noncitizens taking jobs and encouraging violence.

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>The choice made by the Republic guaranteed that, ultimately, it did not survive the premiership of Caesar. Rather, his tenure left the state mortally divided, paralyzed by brutal street violence and sliding toward civil war—a war that Caesar himself would eventually lead against his internal enemies to become the most powerful man in the world—this time, for life. When he was finally removed, it wasn’t a legal repudiation at the ballot box—it was the grisly assassination of a dictator perpetuus, and the damage had already been done. After erupting again into civil war, the last vestiges of the Republic were extinguished when Caesar’s heir emerged the sole survivor to establish an absolute monarchy.

Craig Tindale on a youtu.be channel talking about hard bifurcation, which is a separation of money being used for speculation rather than manufacturing things. An early part of the conversation is about how copper mines going into operation now were planned many years ago before the renewable and weapon demands. Seven mines a year should be opened rather than one. They also discuss that China does most of the refining of copper.

The U.S. has run into recessions with a messy fiscal situation before, but never this bad.

That’s the warning from Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok, who wrote in his Daily Spark newsletter on Tuesday the country is approaching a potential downturn “with this little fiscal buffer” for the first time in modern history.

Gross national debt is currently festering at $39 trillion and growing at what the Peter G. Peterson Foundation calls a “staggering” pace of accumulation. Debt held by the public has already overtaken annual GDP—just the interest alone that we pay on our debt runs at $3 billion a day, exceeding annual federal spending on Medicare or Medicaid.

That big, ugly, black hole of our debt is slowly sucking out the ability of the central bank to respond to recessions, Slok argues.

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/national-debt-gdp-recession-39-trillion-torsten-slok/?utm_source=reddit/

This video talks about the potential end of the petro dollar. He believes US bond prices might be driving foreign policy and a version of the Buffett Indicator from which he subtracts US government debt to indicate the health of the markets.