Europe

The G-20 Shanghai summit was a dud; China's People's Congress fizzled (even if it unleashed the biggest iron ore rally in history, however brief); and so - in a month full of expectations for major policy stimulus (which have so far been vastly disappointing), we approach the one event that is most actionable: the ECB's March 10 meeting and press conference, where expectations are, just like back on December 3, so great - some expect up to a 20 bps rate cut to -0.5%, others expect QE to be increased from €60BN to €70BN per month, yet others believe that Draghi will either extend the TLTRO,

Just when you thoughjt it was safe to chase the biggest short squeeze in history Fed vice-chair Fischer f##ked it all up...

The US equity market has only been more overbought 3 days in history...

On Sunday we asked Europeans the following as it relates to Donald Trump: “Idiot, Clown, or Hero?”

It’s not that those are the only three ways to describe the GOP frontrunner (we're sure we could come up with any number of other colorful adjectives both flattering and not), but they do a decent job of summarizing the three ways a Trump presidency could turn out.

Submitted by Ingrid Carlqvist via The Gatestone Institute,

• Young male asylum seekers have turned Sweden's public swimming pools into ordeals of rape and sexual assault.

Cinghiale girls in Norcia, in winter fashion (Photo by Rod Dreher)

Oh dear:

Fences are rising. There is talk of a brutal and destructive insurgency, invasions and a slaughter that could include hundreds of thousands in the years ahead.