From The Daily Reckoning, October 12, 2011By Bill Bonner
This empire thing…it’s going to be fun.
In the Roman collosseum, for example, the emperor got to decide who lived and who died. He put his thumb up…and the gladiator was spared. Thumbs down…and it was the coup de grace.
He could also issue death warrants for anyone — even his own family. Claudius did so on his own wife (she had it
