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"I don't buy it at all" exclaims Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg in a recent interview with MacroVoices.com, "look all I'll say is that in 2009, 2010 when the Fed embarked on QE, along with 0% interest rates every Tom, Dick and Harry portfolio manager and bond market pundit out there was screaming about the end of the secular bull market in bonds," and they were all wrong.

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Less than 48 hours after announcing his executive order on refugees, global opposition to Trump intensified on Sunday as world leaders, US (mostly tech) companies and civil rights groups condemned the move to temporarily limit entry from predominantly Muslim countries.

Here are the latest updates in the ongoing saga as of noon on Sunday:

Following a tumultuous night, in which late on Saturday evening a Brooklyn Federal Judge issued a partial ban on Trump's immigration order, on Sunday morning the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying it planned on continuing to “enforce all of the president’s executive orders in a manner that ensures the safety and security of the American people.” The DHS said the court order would not affect the overall implementation of the White House order and the court order affected a small number of travelers who were inconvenienced by security procedures upon th

It seems quite ironic that the tagline of Project Syndicate is "fake news or real views?" as it appears the latest scribblings from France's New Philosophers' Movement founder Bernard-Henri Levy have blurred the lines between propaganda, fake news, alternative facts, pure lies, and defamation.

Having slammed the so-called anti-intellectualism movement...

Despite the world's elite 'prepping', and 'Davos man' fearful of the rise of populism, it seems 'average joe' remains exuberant (if sentiment and stocks are to be believed). But France's richest man, LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, has seen this all before and is very anxious.