Henri Matisse Le Bonheur de Vivre 1906 • Trump Directly Scolds NATO Allies, Says They Owe ‘Massive’ Sums (R.) • Trump Joins New-Look G7 Amid Trade, Climate Discord (AFP) • US Appeals Court Refuses To Reinstate Travel Ban (R.) • NSA Under Obama Secretly Spied On Americans For Years (Circa) • UK Labour Party Slashes Tory Lead To Just Five Points In Latest Poll (Ind.) • UK Election Campaign Resumes After Manchester Attack (AFP) • Not A Little List:
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Alfred Buckham Edinburgh c1920 • Toronto Homeowners Are Suddenly in a Rush to Sell (BBG) • $100 Increase In Mortgage Payments Would Sink 75% Of Canadian Homeowners (CBC) • Average Asking Price for Homes in UK Hits Record High of £317,000 (G.) • The Great London Property Squeeze (Minton) • UK Police ‘Stop Passing Information To US’ Over Leaks Of Key Evidence (G.) • The Bubble That Could Break the World (Rickards) • A Bailout Is Coming In China,
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Henri Matisse Nu Blue IV 1952 • China Hit by First Moody’s Downgrade Since 1989 on Debt Risk (BBG) • Chinese Banks Are In Big Trouble (ZH) • American Exceptionalism – Population Growth vs Money Growth (Econimica) • Shiller: Stay In The Market, It ‘Could Go Up 50% From Here’ (CNBC) • German Police Search Daimler Facilities In Dieselgate Probe (DW) • Canada Must Deflate Its Housing Bubble (BBG Ed.) • The Violence of Austerity (OD) • IMF Wants
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Henri Matisse Bathers by a River 1910 • Trump Seeks $3.6 Trillion in Cuts to Reshape Government (BBG) • The US Economy Has Left 10s Of Millions Of Forgotten Americans Behind (Snyder) • UK General Election Campaigning Suspended After Manchester Attack (G.) • US Healthcare Industry Blames Trump And GOP For Obamacare Rate Hikes (F.) • China Pushes Public to Accept GMO as Syngenta Takeover Nears (BBG) • China Spins a Global Food Web From Mozambique to Missouri (BBG)
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Pable Picasso Le Pengouin 1907 • US Loan Creation Crashes To Six-Year Low (ZH) • UK Has All The Ingredients For A New Credit Crunch (G.) • Media To Trump: Only Cozy Up To The Right Dictators (FAIR) • America’s Cash Cow: ‘Trump Does Not Value The Saudis, Only Their Money’ (RT) • Nassim Taleb Tells Ron Paul: “We’ll Destroy What Needs To Be Destroyed” (ZH) • How Did Russiagate Start? (Matt Taibbi) • Jeremy Corbyn Defies His Critics
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Alfred Buckham Tower of London and Tower Bridge c1920 • Trump’s $115 Billion Saudi Weapons Deal Ratifies US Support For Yemen War (WE) • A Quarter Of Americans Can’t Pay All Their Monthly Bills (ZH) • U.K. Threatens to Quit Brexit Talks If It Faces Massive Bill (BBG) • Tory Support Wobbles as Labour Attacks May’s Pensioner Plans (BBG) • May’s Plan To End Free School Lunches ‘To Hit 900,000 Struggling Families’ (O.) • Theresa May’s Tory Manifesto Scraps
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Minor White Windowsill Daydreaming Rochester NY 1958 • The Housing Moment Investors Dread Is Here (DDMB) • Home Ownership Among Young UK Families Halves In 20 Years (TiM) • A Monster Eating the Nation (Jim Kunstler) • Democrats Are Falling For Fake News About Russia (Vox) • Harvard Study Reveals Extent of Anti-Trump Media Bias (HeatSt.) • Comey’s 2007 Brush With Scandal: Jim’s Loyalty Was More To Chuck Schumer (SD) • Constitutional Crisis In Washington? More Like Attempted Coup
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled 1982 • Swedish Prosecutors Drop Julian Assange Rape Investigation (AP/R.) • Australia Economy Among ‘Walking Dead Of Household Debt’ – Steve Keen (NCA) • US Household Debt Hit Record in First Quarter (WSJ) • Why Government Surpluses Is A Terrible Idea – Steve Keen (Renegade) • How Can The Greeks Save More Money? A Monetary Parable. (Steve Keen) • Greek Parliament Approves More Austerity Measures Amid Protests (DW) • Trump Aims to Balance Budget With Deep
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Pablo Picasso Bull plates I-XI 1945 Nicole Foss has completed a huge tour de force with her update of the Automatic Earth Primer Guide. The first update since 2013 is now more like a Primer Library, with close to 160 articles and videos published over the past -almost- 10 years, and Nicole’s words to guide you through it. Here’s Nicole: The Automatic Earth (TAE) has existed for almost ten years now. That is nearly ten years of
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Paul Klee Fire at Full Moon 1933 • ‘Bobby Three Sticks’ Mueller to Probe Russia-Trump imbroglio (R.) • Trump To Announce $350bn Saudi Arabia Arms Deal – One Of Largest Ever (Ind.) • America’s Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows (Whitehead) • Investors Supercharge Bet Amazon Will Destroy US Retail (BBG) • Fed’s Kashkari Says Don’t Use Rate Hikes To Fight Bubbles (R.) • US Banks Tighten Auto Lending as More Borrowers Fall Into Default (BBG)
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