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The chap who created Retracement Levels, known here on Slope for many years as 2sweeties, wrote me recently about the U.S. presidential election. 2sweeties is from Italy, so he has an interesting perspective, and since the discourse on the campaign for the Republican nomination has devolved into comparing dick size, I thought this email would be worth sharing:

I was curious to hear your comments about what is happening in the States….
I watched some of the debates between Trump and the other republicans (and also what Hillary said about Trump…).

You know in the early 90s in Italy we had a similar scenario: a guy called Silvio Berlusconi – he was a media mogul, was himself a showman, had built an empire based on real estate and media, he decided to become Prime Minister and self-candidate itself to the elections.

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