Angela Merkel Faces Challenge For Chancellorship

Submitted by Soren Kern via The Gatestone Institute,
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Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,
We recently warned that America is about to see unprecedented protests and rioting from coast to coast.
But don’t take our word for it.
A social justice warrior involved in the Seattle street protests tells you everything you need to know about what the future holds and lends further evidence to the notion that America sits on the precipice of widespread civil unrest.
Submitted by Paul Brodsky via Macro-Allocation.com,
In Contrarianism in 2017 we cited the following macro dynamics that keep us cautious on equities, bullish on Treasuries and gold, and negative on credit:
The US dollar is having its worst start to a year in decades...
As the Trump Administration is breaking from a long-standing, bipartisan policy of supporting a strong dollar, the greenback has fallen against its peers by 2.7%, the worst start to a year since 1987, after Ronald Reagan engineered a decline in the dollar to combat a flood of Japanese imports.
Finally, remember, nothing lasts forever...
Source: The Burning Platform
Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,