Rhyming History: Rome's Hyperinflation

And its barbarian invasion, descent into dictatorship, and eventual fall

As the old saying goes, “History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.” Which means there are plenty of lessons to be learned from our ancestors’ screw-ups.

This post is the first in a series covering some of humanity’s more useful cautionary tales.

The logical starting point is of course ancient Rome, with its many disturbing similarities to the current US…