general election

• Trump Alleges That ‘Millions of People’ Voted Illegally (WSJ)
• Oil slip sends dollar, bond yields skidding (Reuters)
• Italian Lenders Slide on Vote Worries to Drag Down Europe Stocks (BBG)
• OPEC makes last-ditch bid to save oil deal as tensions grow (Reuters)
• How Iran, Russia Could Derail Oil-Production Deal (WSJ)
• Tug of War Delays Some of Trump’s Key Appointments (WSJ)
• French conservatives back Fillon for president, left flounders (Reuters)
• How to Kill the Volcker Rule? Don’t Enforce It (WSJ)

For weeks the Trump campaign has seemingly been agonizing over the Secretary of State position.  Media reports, to which we attribute the utmost credibility, have suggested that the decision has divided Trump's transition team into three factions: those who want Romney, those who want Giuliani and those who prefer anyone other than those two frontrunners.

The escalating scandal over Jill Stein's recount effort continued this morning, when President-elect Donald Trump early Sunday predicted on Twitter that a recount effort in three states will not change the results of the election. “Hillary Clinton conceded the election when she called me just prior to the victory speech and after the results were in. Nothing will change,” he tweeted.

Jill Stein's credibility seems to be sinking fast as both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign have released statements this morning indicating they've failed to uncover a single shred of election hacking evidence.  The Obama administration confirmed their confidence in the election results via comments made to the New York Times saying that the election was "free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective" and that votes "accurately reflect the will of the American people."

This morning Hillary Clinton's campaign general counsel, Marc Elias, confirmed what we all knew already, namely that Jill Stein is likely acting at the direction of the Clintons in her recount efforts in WI, MI and PA.  The discovery came after Elias posted a note to Hillary voters this morning on Medium confirming that they would participate in Stein's recount efforts even though the Clinton campaign itself had decided against a recount because they had "not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology."  This approach see