Authored by Anatole Kaletsky, originally posted at Project Syndicate,
For those of us who were wrong about the United States’ presidential election, it is worth suppressing emotional reactions, at least for a month or two, and attempting a dispassionate judgment about what Donald Trump’s administration may mean for the world. So here are ten likely consequences of the Trump presidency, divided equally between the good and the bad.
Finally, a voice of reason emerges in Wisconsin to combat Jill Stein's useless recount crusade. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin Elections Commission Chairman, Mark Thomsen, who happens to be Democrat, announced earlier that the committee would follow through with Stein's recount request but denied a request that the recount be conducted by hand. Thomsen cited a 2011 recount that changed the overall vote margin by 300 votes as evidence that the current recount would overturn Trump's 22,177 vote lead in the state.
Did Michigan just spoil Jill Stein's party?
BREAKING: Michigan certifies Donald Trump as winner of state’s 16 electoral votes with recount request expected.
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 28, 2016
As AP reports,
The Board of State Canvassers certified Trump's 10,704-vote victory on Monday, nearly three weeks after the election.
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US Domestic Tumult – Orchestrated or Not?
In an intraday update on the current status of pre-summit negotiations taking place Monday in Vienna, an OPEC delegate told Bloomberg that there have been "no big changes in the position of either Iran or Iraq" at the high-level committee talks, which began 8 hours ago, in Vienna. As a reminder, both Iran and Iraq have sought exemptions from cutting oil production and according to the Algiers agreement in late September, Iran had been granted just that, however since then Saudi Arabia appears to have reneged on its concession.