Pablo Picasso Jacqueline in Turkish costume 1955 • Yellen Brushes Aside Inflation ‘Mystery’ While Fed Eyes Rate Hike (BBG) • Federal Reserve Will Continue Cutting Economic Life Support (Smith) • What Shiller Says Is Preventing A 1929-Like Stock Market Crash (CNBC) • Stock Market Bubbles in Perspective (Ma) • We’re Officially In The 2nd-Largest Bull Market Since World War II (BI) • Who’s Pulling The Strings? (Ren.) • 144 Years Ago A Panic Shut Down The Stock Market For
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Edward Hopper Automat 1927 • Australia: A Delusional, Stuffed, Basket Case, Bubble, Third World Economy (MB) • With QT On The Way, This Market ‘Is Headed For A Brick Wall’ (Boockvar) • Where Deutsche Bank Thinks The Next Financial Crises Could Happen (CNBC) • Just 4% Own Over 95% Of Bitcoin (HowMuch) • MPs Want Public Inquiry Into UK’s £200 Billion Household Debt Crisis (G.) • Millennials Spend Three Times More Of Income On Housing Than Grandparents (G.) •
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Wynn Bullock Child on a Forest Road 1958 A few days ago, former Reagan Budget Director and -apparently- permabear (aka perennial bear) David Stockman did an interview (see below) with Stuart Varney at Fox -a permabull?!-, who started off with ‘the stock rally goes on’ despite a London terror attack and the North Korea missile situation. His first statement to Stockman was something in the vein of “if I had listened to you at any time after the past
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Edouard Manet Portrait of Emile Zola 1868 • When The Market Finally Implodes, Don’t Say These Charts Didn’t Warn You (MW) • S&P 500 Buybacks Have Dropped By 25% Since The First Quarter Of 2016 (MW) • Fed’s Balance-Sheet Unwind Will Be Moment Of Truth For Financial Markets (MW) • $700 Billion Unpaid Mortgage Balances In Harvey And Irma Disaster Areas (ZH) • Rand Paul’s Senate Vote Rolls Back the Warfare State (Ron Paul) • US Senate Backs Massive
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Pablo Picasso The old fisherman 1895 • Muted Inflation A Trillion-Dollar Puzzle – BIS (R.) • Global Debt Underreported By $14 Trillion – BIS (ZH) • World’s Central Banks Can’t Ignore the Bitcoin Boom – BIS (BBG) • Dogecoin Creator On Cryptocurrencies: “Very Bubble. Much Scam. So Avoid.” (NYT) • The Future Of Cryptocurrency Is Not As It Seems (Eric Peters) • China’s $40 Trillion Banking System: “Largest Imbalances I’ve Ever Seen” (ZH) • Stockman: Trump’s Now ‘Blowing Kisses
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Edward Hopper House tops 1921 • Trade War With China Will End US Global Finance Monopoly – Jim Rogers (RT) • Pension Storm Warning (Mauldin) • S&P On The Verge Of History (ZH) • How Austerity Works (Steve Keen) • Why Bitcoin May Be Worth Only A Third Of Its Value (MW) • How Common is the Seneca Curve? (Ugo Bardi) • Greek Debt Write-Offs To Be Based On Properties (K.) • The Eurozone May Be Back On Its
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Pablo Picasso Garcon à la Pipe 1905 • To Hell In A Bucket: America Is Going Broke At Mach 30 (Gordon) • Down $20 Billion, Boeing Stuffs Pension Fund With Its Own Shares (BBG) • Toys ‘R’ Us Mulls Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing (R.) • Bitcoin Needs To Be Worth $1,000,000 To Be A Legitimate Currency (MW) • Hillary Happened (Jeffrey St. Clair) • Trump And The Democrats: What’s Next: A Deal With Bernie? (Salon) • The OODA Loop
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Juan Gris Portrait of the artist’s mother 1912 • Fed To Take Historic Leap Into The Unknown (MW) • Janet Yellen’s Right-Hand Man Is Hanging Up His Boots (BI) • 97 Million American Workers Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck (ZH) • “Markets Are Wrong” (Hugh Hendry) • Japanese Told To Find Shelter After North Korea ‘Fires New Missile’ (Y.) • JPMorgan Is In A Bubble And Not Bitcoin – Max Keiser (RT) • Why Europe Will Miss The Disruptive
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Edward Hopper Chop Suey 1929 • Top Democrats Announce Deal With Trump To Protect ‘Dreamers’ (MW) • Fed Balance Sheet Reduction Will Reduce Funds Sent To Treasury (BI) • “You Should Take the Fed at Their Word” (WS) • “Markets Have Always Been Wrong” – Jamie Dimon (ZH) • 10% of Global GDP Is Stashed In Tax Havens (BI) • Did You Know Housing Gets Counted Twice In GDP? (Murray) • The Real Earnings of Men (WS) • China’s
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Eugene Delacroix Greece expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi 1826 European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, famous for his imbibition capacity and uttering -not necessarily in that order- the legendary words “when it becomes serious, you have to lie”, presented his State of the Union today. Which is of pretty much limited interest because, as Yanis Varoufakis’ book ‘Adults in the Room’ once again confirmed, Juncker is nothing but ventriloquist Angela Merkel’s sock puppet. But of course he had lofty
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