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Can we learn anything useful from bullies, dictators, and tyrants to inform business leadership? Does the study of good and bad political leaders help inform our understanding of leadership in the commercial realm? Powerful leaders are often admired, even by those who disagree with their policies. Prime Minister Thatcher is still venerated by many in her party and remembered with respect by others. She was, and still is, a leader remembered all over the world, mostly with respect, if not affection. President Putin has written himself into the history books. The consequences of his leadership will be more significant than any leader in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of this century. He enjoys strong popular support in his country and there are many heads of government who…

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What’s going on? As MoneyWeek went to press, the US federal government and Republicans in Congress remained locked in a stand-off over America’s self-imposed “debt ceiling” – the government’s borrowing limit (currently $31.4trn). The government actually hit the cap in January. Since then it has been using “extraordinary measures” to get round it (essentially fiscal accounting tools that curb certain government investments so that the bills continue to be paid). But now those measures have been exhausted and the point is close at which the US runs out of cash and can no longer issue new debt and pay its bills. The Biden administration wants the ceiling lifted; the Republicans (who have a majority in the House of Representatives) won’t agree unless they can extract political concessions and leverage over…