This should be alarming, right?

[kandrathe]

For anyone able to get over the Financial Times paywall, here's Sebastian Edwards (of Edwards and Dornbusch fame - the guys who wrote the book on the economics of Latin American populism) and his thoughts about the Trump/Chavez comparison. Alas that the great Rudiger Dornbusch is no longer around to chip in his view.

-Jester

Alt links "Is Trump a Peronist?" -->

http://latinamericagoesglobal.org/2016/1...-peronist/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worl...-president
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...ngman.html

I think one trouble is speculation with a jaded eye. Everyone imagines their worst nightmare and projects it into their speculation on what he will do. We know what he said he'd do, but will he do it, or be able to do it. It is hard to fathom, but the US has had ineffective presidents in the more distant past. It is the wisdom of our founders in crafting the separation of powers.