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Following last week's surprise statement that "If I were to have voted I would have voted on Trump" by Kanye West, it appears the celebrities are now turning on one another as the cognitive dissonance bomb of a Trump win ripples through their minds. Billboard reports that Kanye went on another epic (aleit incomprehensible) rant during his Saint Pablo tour stop at Sacramento, that "sometime we be playing the politics too much," before ending the show after just 3 songs.

One of the catalysts behind the surge in bank and financial stocks since the Trump victory, has been the market's expectation that the new administration will repeal Dodd-Frank, and thus undo years of regulatory hurdles that have prevent banks from engaging in everything from prop trading to levering substantially higher, and have cost them billions in legal fees and settlements.

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Below we present an insightful, if disturbing, anecdote from Eric Peters, CIO Of One River Asset Management, who shares his view in his traditional "third-person" style about what life may be well be like for traders over the next 4 years under the Trump administration.

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As China's president Xi was setting the stage for a new regional free-trade deal dubbed the Free Trade Area of Asia-Pacific at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru now that Obama's TPP has suffered a quiet death, a new geopolitical axis was being formed.