[pjc50]

I think you could make strong arguments for all of those:

- fairly sure the Federalist society wrote a lot of words on why strong king-like presidents were bad; a strong individual post is a license for arbitrary whims of power

- weak currency improves exports; the Chinese strategy for decades was a weak RMB to the extent that the US complained about it endlessly

- "shareholder value" tends to be a horribly short termist metric that encourages hollowing out the business, reducing investment, and pinching the employees until they start leaving