Trump derangement syndrome sweeps Canberra

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It’s at once grave and comical as Australia’s policy aylite grapple with the outcome of their own stupidity, Australia’s huge over-exposure to the great and growing US versus China schism.

Laura Tingle kicks us off with outright hysteria:

The sense of a tipping point in history is all pervasive. How former prime minister John Howard could blandly argue through the week that the world has to simply let Donald Trump make mistakes is dumb founding.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.