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.
Two weeks after China allegedly unveiled a new ICBM system "in response to Trump's provocative remarks", a report which however was subsequently denied by Chinese officials, China had no qualms about revealing another highly accurate ballistic missile in recent Rocket Force drills, which is capable of threatening not only Taiwan and the contested South China Sea islands, but also U.S. and Japanese bases in Asia.
With some speculating that French presidential candidate Francois Fillon, mired in a growing political scandal involving public payments made to his wife and children for a "fake job", would announce a resignation at a 4pm conference, moments ago the former frontrunner for the French presidency defended himself as Reuters suggested, and stated that he has "nothing to hide", that his wife’s salary was “perfectly justified” and that he has been the subject of unprecedented political attacks.