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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the US capital where he will be meet Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday. “I am going to Washington to have a very important meeting with President Trump… The alliance between Israel and America has always been extremely strong and it is about to get even stronger,” Netanyahu told the media at the airport as he set off on Monday. “President Trump and I see eye-to-eye on the dangers emanating from the region, but also on the opportunities.

Excerpted from today's Blain's Morning Porridge by Bill Blain of Mint Partners

Over weekend drinks, dinners, very good lunches and rugby banter I was repeatedly told by my chums with real jobs in Industry, Services and Government how terrible this Trump fellow is turning out. It's terribly liberal of us all to be illiberal about him.

The first face to face meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Trump was seen by many as the most important meeting for Canada in decades. While PM Trudeau is teaming up with so-called 'sexist' Trump to urge policy-makers to remove barriers to increasing competitiveness for women entrepreneurs, as well as tackle issues affecting women in the workforce, we are sure reporters will want to focus on the "epidemic" of refugees crossing into Canada (from US), NAFTA trade tensions, and White House personnel decisions.

Via Disobedient Media

It took just a few months for Disobedient Media to go from a sleepy news outlet to apparently garnering the attention of multiple power brokers on the global stage.

Via ConvergEx's Nicholas Colas,

The game is afoot: call it the “Mystery of the Teleporting Commuter”.  Starting in October 2016, the amount of gasoline supplied to the US market started to decline on a year over year basis.  This negative trend accelerated in January, leaving both energy analysts and macroeconomic pundits to wonder if the US has entered a stealth recession.