Europe

Submitted by Jason Leach via FusionPointCapital.com,

Seemingly taking a page out of Europe's idiotic government decisions, George Washington University Law Professor John Banzhaf is urging President Trump to go slow on appealing a court's rejection of the administration's travel ban and instead, follow Germany's example and put GPS ankle bracelets on visitors from the seven targeted nations until a final decision is made.

After two weeks of vigorously signing executive orders, 20 as of February 6, undoing Obama-era regulations, and engaging foreign leaders in often heated exchanges by phone, Trump is gearing up to make offshore visits to, as Axios puts it, "reedem himself as a diplomat" in coming months. According to the AP, his phone call readout reveal significant upcoming overseas travel, "and Europe is the destination."

Some details: "Trump has been burning up White House telephone lines calling his world counterparts and, during those talks, has committed to several trans-Atlantic trips."

Just as ECB President Mario Draghi states unequivocally that ECB QE policy has worked and has "eliminated fragmentation," French presidential candidate Fillon's apologetic press conference has sparked major disturbances in the core of Europe... fragmenting France from Germany by themost since September 2012...

Initial relief quickly turned to selling panic...

Sending OAT yields to their widest to Bunds since September 2012.

Moments ago, during a hearing of Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament, in his prepared remarks Mario Draghi said that “support from our monetary policy measures is still needed if inflation rates are to converge toward our objective with sufficient confidence and in a sustained manner.” Confirming that no changes to the ECB's monetary policy are due in the near future,  Draghi said that "underlying inflation pressures remain very subdued and are expected to pick up only gradually", adding that "risks to the euro area outlook remain tilted to the downside" but "relate mai