Liberty Links 11/19/16

Must Reads

Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist Plots “An Entirely New Political Movement” (The Hollywood Reporter)

Trump’s Pick for Attorney General Scoffed at ‘Too Big to Fail’ (Sessions seems pretty good on corporate crime, Bloomberg)

Harsher Security Tactics? Obama Left Door Ajar, and Donald Trump Is Knocking (The New York Times)

Washington Girds for Role Reversal on Executive Power (Good insight into why D.C. is so gross, Politico)

Americans Don’t Trust Their Institutions Anymore (Lots of good info here, FiveThirtyEight)

Explaining It All To You (Fantastic takedown of Vox, CurrentAffairs.org)

You Should Be Terrified That People Who Like “Hamilton” Run Our Country (CurrentAffairs.org)

Should the Government Bring Back Trust-Busting? (Matt Stoller is on point, The New York Times)

President Trump Should Pardon Julian Assange (He should, but he won’t, The Daily Caller)

How Trump Could Spell Trouble for the Fed (Bloomberg)

On Donald Trump, the “Reformer” (Lawrence Lessig writing at Medium)

U.S. Politics

Mnuchin’s Bank Accused of Redlining Black and Latino Home Buyers (Bloomberg)

Bankers Celebrate Dawn of Trump Era (Let’s hope this is wrong, Politico)

Sessions’ Hard Lines Could Yield Confirmation Fight (Politico)

Trump Team to Bar Administration Officials From Lobbying for Five Years (The Hill)

Lobbyists Uncertain of Their Place in Trump’s Washington (The Hill)

Donald Trump Election May Renew Push To End Electoral College, Elect Presidents By Popular Vote (International Business Times)

Protesters Occupy Sen. Schumer’s D.C. Office, Rip Him for Ties to Wall Street (NY Daily News)

‘Tolerant’ Educators Exile Trump Voters From Campus (USA Today)

Twitter’s Alt-Right Purge Could Backfire (USA Today)

Wary of Trump Immigration Threat, NY May Erase ID Card Data (Chicago Tribune)

Chelsea Clinton Can’t Let Her Family’s Political Dynasty End (Please let it end, New York Post)

If Hillary Clinton Belongs in Prison, So Does Rudy Giuliani (Reason)

Alex Jones Says Donald Trump Called to Thank Him (New York Times)

U.S. Voters Deliver Mixed Results on Gun Control Measures (Reuters)

Voters in Washington State Give Judges Power to Violate Gun Owners’ Due Process (Reason)

Geopolitics/World War 3

Turkey’s Erdogan Could Govern Until 2029 Under Plans to Change Constitution (Reuters)

Far Right Sweden Democrats Close in as Second Largest Party (Reuters)

John Kirby Loses Cool with RT Reporter (Pretty embarrassing, YouTube)

Europe at Risk of Collapse; France, Germany Must Lead – French PM (Reuters)

Italy’s Maverick 5-Star Movement Faces Difficult Path to Power After Referendum (Reuters)

Finance/Economy

India Acts to Help Farmers Hit by Black Money Crackdown (Reuters)

Citibank is the First Australian Bank to Stop Taking Cash (Business Insider)

I.R.S. Is Seeking Tax Evaders Who Use Bitcoin (IRS is always hunting the peasants, The New York Times)

New Yorkers See Drastic Spike in Home Foreclosures (New York Post)

Janus’ Gross Says Trump Will Be One-Termer, in Failure for Populism (Reuters)

Miscellaneous

Police Are Using Software to Predict Crime (The Washington Post)

7 Lame Arguments Against Letting Denver Businesses Welcome Cannabis Consumers (Reason)

Liberty Blitzkrieg Partners

Tsunami Preparedness: A Seismic Wave Survival Guide (Ammo.com)

Subscriber Special – 220,000 Highly-Compensated California Public Employees (Open the Books)

Pacific Precious Metals

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Michael Krieger

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