Feb 042017
 
 February 4, 2017  Posted by at 2:43 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,  2 Responses »
Absolution, Deceit and Renewables

Esther Bubley Boy who rides to school daily on Greyhound bus, Washington Court House, Ohio 1943   It’s been a while since the Automatic Earth featured an article from Energy Matters, the site run by our longtime friend Euan Mearns, Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Aberdeen, and his co-conspirator Roger Andrews, a British engineer/geophysicist, semi-retired in Mexico. But I read a piece by Roger yesterday that I like, because it allows me to rant against all the false

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Feb 042017
 
 February 4, 2017  Posted by at 10:24 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,  1 Response »
Debt Rattle February 4 2017

Henri Cartier Bresson Paris 1952 • Judge Blocks Trump Travel Ban Nationwide (ZH) • Airlines Told To Allow Banned Travelers Into US After Judge’s Order (G.) • Trump’s Travel Ban Has Revoked 60,000 Visas For Now (R.) • If Americans Truly Cared About Muslims, They Would Stop Killing Them (BAR) • Iran To Name US Individuals Involved In ‘Helping And Founding’ Terrorists (ZH) • EU Flirts With Hypocrisy In Criticising Trump’s Refugee Ban (EUO) • America Is Shedding Its Whole

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Feb 032017
 
 February 3, 2017  Posted by at 11:06 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,  2 Responses »
Debt Rattle February 3 2017

Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Return of the Boating Party 1862 • Trump’s Economic Policy Makes Perfect Sense: Albert Edwards (CNBC) • Big Clash Looming (Kath.) • The IMF Should Get Out of Greece (Ashoka Mody) • Italians Are Outright Economic Losers in the Era of the Euro (BBG) • China Net 2016 Outflows At Record $725 Billion (R.) • Reality Vs. The “Recovery” Narrative (Mises) • Markets Are Experiencing Cognitive Dissonance (Rickards) • Scots to Vote on Tuesday on May’s Draft

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Feb 022017
 
 February 2, 2017  Posted by at 11:01 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,  2 Responses »
Debt Rattle Groundhog Day 2017

Pablo Picasso The Bull state VII 1945 • 200 Years of US Immigration Data Put Trump’s Ban Into Context (Stat) • Australia PM Turnbull Denies Trump ‘Hang Up’ (Sky) • Will Donald Trump Reverse The War On Cash? (IM) • Problems ‘Resolved’ For German Dual Citizens Under Trump’s Travel Ban (Loc.) • German Current Account Surplus To Hit Record, World’s Largest In 2016 (R.) • Switzerland’s Record Surplus Raises Questions Amid Trump Trade Agenda (WSJ) • Dutch Will Count All

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Feb 012017
 
 February 1, 2017  Posted by at 9:21 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  5 Responses »
Unrest Is The Only Growth Industry Left

Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa 1819   Benoît Hamon won the run-off for the presidential nomination of the Socialist party in France last weekend. The party that still, lest we forget, runs the country; current president François Hollande is a Socialist, even if only in name, but he did win the previous election. Hamon ran on a platform of shortening the workweek from 35 to 32 hours, legalizing cannabis and ‘easing’ the country into a universal basic income

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Feb 012017
 
 February 1, 2017  Posted by at 10:37 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  2 Responses »
Debt Rattle February 1 2017

William Henry Jackson North from Brink Wood, Pen Mar Park, Maryland 1906 • Trump Trade Chief Navarro Accuses Germany Of Abusing Euro For Own Gain (Tel.) • ECB Has An Inflation Problem … Called Germany (Pol.) • Japan Rejects Trump Accusation Of Devaluing Yen In Currency War (G.) • EU Chair Tusk Labels Trump A ‘Threat’ As Europeans Debate US Ties (R.) • Donald Trump Has a Goldman Sachs Problem: Derivatives (Martens) • Theresa May to Trigger Brexit on March

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