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Gold price tops $5,000 an ounce for first time as investors seek safe haven from Trump turmoil
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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There is something that isn't working for me about this scenario. Fascist regimes either come to power because there was a deep recession or they engineer a fake boom after taking power to justify their hard-handed tactics.
I can't think of a single case where a fascist regime took power and then cratered a stable economy. That's not a rational way to start imposing restrictive laws, since there is only downside to keeping them on. You give up liberty in exchange for poverty? That is hardly a bargain anyone would make.
You are failing to account for how stupid the leadership of this fascist regime is. Trump is not a revolutionary leader. He is more like the third generation of a hereditary regime. Nothing he builds is going to last very long unless someone way better comes along to shore it up.
The economy wasn't stable before. There is an explosion of homelessness and poverty and inflation that the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Fed paper over.
It was only ever lipstick on a pig.