Your say: week beginning December 15

Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.

Monday December 15

The mind of Trump

“Andrew Gawthorpe’s article on America’s national security and Trump’s view of the world is brilliant. It gives a clear explanation of what is going on in the mind of the president. For us mortals who are not historians, I value a writing style for the layman. Thank you for a great article.”

Jennie Clarke, Hobart TAS

A matter of interest

“I write in relation to this story about the RBA’s interest rate policy. I just wanted to raise some concerns about the analysis conducted. Monetary policy affects the economy via several channels. The ‘cash flow channel’ (i.e. mortgages) is only a small component. The main channels are actually the wealth channel and the exchange rate.”

Luke Hartigan, Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney

You know who

“Easy solution to the long queues at public hospitals, in Western Australia at least. Make the mega rich people who also subscribe to the "American system” pay their multitude of fly-in fly-out workers a fully subscribed private health cover that goes with their wages, then they will have to use private hospitals and take the massive manufactured pressure off the public health system.“

David Charlton, ex fifo worker, Perth WA