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The only US election piece in Australia worth your time

David Llewellyn-Smith
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It was an extraordinary outpouring of US election guff in the MSM on the weekend. Feel some pity for your humble blogger because I had to read it all. Our media is has become a kind of squawking parlour of mediocrity chock full of self-promoters, narrow identities and, above all, siloed viewpoints that are too limited to integrate politics, economics and social trends into a useful narrative.

The only piece worthy of your time (amid what seemed like hundreds) was Alan Kohler who summed it all up nicely with a bow on top this morning:

…a more fundamental lesson from the US election, and it is perhaps more an issue for the left of centre parties that embraced globalisation at the expense of their working-class roots.

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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.