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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.

Trump's feud with the entertainment industry is just getting started.

The President-elect took to Twitter Sunday morning to again slam the cast and producer of the Broadway musical "Hamilton," following vice president-elect Mike Pence's attendance at the show Friday night. "The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior," Trump tweeted at 6:22 a.m.

I know we’re all Hamiltoned out, but please, allow me another word about Hamilton and the power of art to open our eyes to things we would not otherwise have seen. Back in 2005, I was a columnist at The Dallas Morning News. Then as now, when I wrote about same-sex marriage, I defended and advocated for tradition. Brokeback Mountain was then in theaters, and I didn’t want to see it for a couple of reasons.