Esther Bubley Waiting for Greyhound bus trip from Memphis to Louisville, KY 1943 Been scribbling several some post-election notes over the past few days, it seemed a good idea to not publish things too soon after the upset, even if I at least had the advantage that it wasn’t that much of a surprise or upset. But I’ve read far too many people too eager to write about how they haven’t moved an inch, and too many others who
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Andy Thomas: Grand Ol’ Gang • Stupid Americans Elect An Absurd and Dangerous President (Spiegel) • Trump Adviser Scaramucci Takes Aim at Conservatives’ Budgetary Restraint (BBG) • Trump’s Truthful Heresy On Globalization And Free Trade (Steve Keen) • Clinton Blames FBI’s Comey For Her Defeat In Call With Donors (R.) • Sidney Blumenthal: Right-Wing FBI Agents Took Down Hillary In Coup D’État (ZH) • NY Times Publisher Vows To ‘Rededicate’ Paper To Reporting Honestly (Fox) • President Trump: How &
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Harris&Ewing National Press Club Building newssstand, Washington DC 1940 • Escaping the Soulless Machine (Steen Jakobsen) • Moving Past Never Trump (NR) • Donald Trump Appears To Soften Stance On Range Of Pledges (G.) • The Clintons And Soros Launch America’s Purple Revolution (Madsen) • A Visit to Trump’s America (Speed) • Supporters To Trump: Break Campaign Promises At Your Peril (R.) • Trump Spells End of Normality for Europe (Spiegel) • Trump’s Rise Comes As No Surprise On England’s
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Leonard Cohen 21 September 1934 – 7 November 2016 • The End of Growth and the Rise of Trump (Tyee) • Donald Trump Is Moving To The White House, And Liberals Put Him There (Frank) • Rupee Note Cancellation Plunges India Into Panic (G.) • Emerging-Markets Rout Deepens as Europe Shares, Commodities Rise (BBG) • China Household Debt/GDP More Than Doubled In Under 10 Years To 40.7% (R.) • China’s Yuan Set for Steepest Weekly Loss Since January (BBG) •
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Byron In Chinatown, Pell Street, New York 1900 • To Make America Great Again, Write Off The Private Debt (Steve Keen) • Asian Markets Soar, Nikkei Rockets Close To 7% (CNBC) • Dow Closes Up 250 Points; Financials Surge After Trump Election Upset (CNBC) • The Jig Is Up: America’s Voters Just Fired Their Ruling Elites (Stockman) • Thousands Protest Trump Win Around US (BBG) • White House Won’t Rule Out Pardon to Protect Clinton From Trump (BBG) • Trump
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Javier Juén 2016 • Donald Trump Wins White House in Astonishing Victory (AP) • Global Markets Roiled as Trump Election Win Upends Forecasts (BBG) • Putin Congratulates Trump, Hopes To Work On International Issues (RT) • World Leaders Brace Themselves For Trump Presidency (G.) • Canada Immigration Website Crashes As Trump’s US Election Lead Grows (G.) • Donald Trump’s Victory Is Nothing Short Of A Revolution (G.) • Toronto Million-Dollar Homes Pushing Demand to Nearby Cities (BBG) • India Abolishes
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Joe Schwartz/Jewish Museum May Day Parade, New York City 1936 Neither candidate in the US presidential election has had many specifics to offer on their economic ideas and projected policies, and that may be a smart move for both. If only because none of the two has indicated any real understanding of what awaits America as per November 9. And I don’t mean where the stock markets will be tomorrow morning, or the price of gold, though short term volatility
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DPC Engineer at his post, Michigan Central RR 1904 • US Stocks Have Best Day Since March On Clinton Relief Rally (MW) • Investors Aren’t Ready to Dump Their Trump-Upset Hedges (BBG) • Options Price In One of Biggest Stock Moves on Record for US Election (BBG) • Vote As If Your Life Depended On It… Because It Does (Zuesse) • What’s Driving The Recent Slump In US Imports? (WS) • Portrait of the American Debt Slave, as of Q3
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NPC Auto wreck, Washington, DC April 1917 • Betting Sites See Record Wagering On US Presidential Election (R.) • When Might We Know Who Won? Potentially Hours Earlier Than Usual (BBG) • Could Trump Or Clinton Face Impeachment As President? (John Crudele) • This Election Has Disgraced the Entire Profession of Journalism (Silverstein) • Much More Than Trump (Repost), by Robert Gore • Private Capital Allocation As Inefficient As In Great Depression (Beversdorf) • Housing ‘Wealth Creation’ Leads To National
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Ryan Redhawk Standing Rock 2016 • David Stockman Warns Both Trump And Clinton Could Lead To 25% Sell-Off (CNBC) • Election Chaos Fears Have Preppers Stockpiling Survival Food (CNBC) • Exposing John Podesta (TeleSur) • The Secret World of the US Election: Julian Assange Talks to John Pilger (RT) • California Secession Group To Meet At State Capitol Day After Election (SFG) • Tech Is Disrupting All Before It – Even Democracy Is In Its Sights (Cadwalladr) • China Premier
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