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The Fourth Reich

Pound surges after Donald Trump’s trade chief Peter Navarro accuses Germany of abusing euro for own gain

“It came as Mr Trump’s trade chief put the US on a collision course with Germany after he accused Berlin of using a “grossly undervalued” euro to “exploit” the US and the rest of the EU.

Peter Navarro, who heads the US president’s new National Trade Council, described the single currency as an “implicit Deutsche Mark” that gave Germany a competitive advantage over its trade partners.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/01/31/donald-trumps-trade-chief-peter-navarro-accuses-germany-abusing/

Word Of The Day: Expertariat

As in:

“The people of America have rejected the expertariat, and I think with good reason because I think the expertariat have been wrong about one thing after another, including climate policy,” he said. “The expert class, it seems to me, is full of arrogance or hubris.”

“Climate-change denier Myron Ebell says he expects Trump to withdraw the US from the global climate change agreement.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/30/green-movement-greatest-threat-freedom-says-trump-adviser-myron-ebell