Vincent van Gogh Le moulin de la galette 1886 • Fed Chairman Powell: Market Volatility Won’t Stop More Rate Hikes (CNBC) • The Albatross Of Debt Part 4 (David Stockman) • Slowing Euro-Area Inflation Helps Draghi Push Back Exit Debate (BBG) • Banks Have The Right To ‘Do What They Want’ In Leveraged Lending: Otting (R.) • EU and China Consider Retaliation To Potential Trump Tariffs (CNBC) • People in Sweden at Risk of Losing Access to Cash Altogether
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Lewis Wickes Hine Mother and child, Ellis Island, New York 1907 • Stock Market Rests Happily on Smoldering Powder Keg (WS) • China’s Bailouts Won’t End With Anbang (Balding) • US January New Home Sales Crash As Rates Spike (ZH) • US Gross National Debt Spikes $1 Trillion in Less Than 6 Months (WS) • Dark Money: The Secret Force Behind Today’s Rigged Markets (Nomi Prins) • Problem With Rising Rates: Corporate America Has Binged On Debt (CNN) • European
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Lewis Wickes Hine Hot day, East Side, New York 1908 • The Albatross of Debt – Part 2 (David Stockman) • Day Of Reckoning Nears with Record $650 Billion In Stock Buybacks (ZH) • It’s Dalio Versus Everyone Else as Money Flows to Europe Stocks (BBG) • A Strong Euro Is A Headache For The ECB (Mises) • 1% Interest Rate Rise Would Cost Average UK Homeowner £930 a Year (G.) • Corbyn Policy Shift Draws Brexit Battle Lines
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Jerome Liebling Snow, Clothes, Roof Brooklyn New York 1948 • The US Mortgage Market Is Moving Into the Shadows (BBG) • Regulators Are Laying The Groundwork For The Next Housing Crisis (ZH) • This is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like (Atlantic) • ‘CalPERS Is Near Insolvency; It Needs A Bailout Soon’ (ZH) • ‘We Can’t Continue to Run the World’ – Ron Paul (Sputnik) • Resist That (Jim Kunstler) • China Seeks to Repeal Term Limit, Opening
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Arthur Rothstein Rear of interstate truck. Elko, Nevada 1940 • Debt On Track To Destroy The American Middle Class (GoldT) • The Only Thing That Can Save Stocks Is QE (ZH) • Fed ‘Quite Likely’ To Require Large-Scale QE Again (ZH) • VIX Funds Face Fresh Scrutiny From US Regulators (BBG) • Xi Confidant Emerges As Front Runner To Head China’s Central Bank (R.) • Brexit To End London House Price Boom (Ind.) • UK Post-Brexit Plans Based On
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Pablo Picasso Rooster 1938 • Art Cashin: Once the 10-Year Yield Hits 3% ‘All Hell’ Could Break Loose (CNBC) • China Regulators Take Control Of Insurance Giant Anbang (AFP) • Xi’s Debt Crackdown Goes Into Hyperdrive (BBG) • BIS Suggests Beijing Is Behind China Shadow Banking Sector (F.) • China Is Letting The Yuan Crush The Dollar To Appease Trump (CNBC) • Bond Villain in the World Economy: Latvia’s Offshore Banking Sector (CP) • Reserve Bank Of Australia Accused
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Arthur Rothstein Wasatch Mountains. Summit County, Utah 1940 • Bond Yields Moving From ‘Sweet Spot’ To Riskier Area (CNBC) • Who Will Buy All Those Trillions of US Treasury’s? (Hamilton) • A Major Misconception About The Market Exposed In One Chart (CNBC) • Spiking Mortgage Rates, High Home Prices, New Tax Law, the Housing Market (WS) • Existing US Home Sales In January See Biggest Drop In 3 Years (R.) • Homeownership Is Increasingly For The Wealthy (CNBC) •
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J.J. Grandville ‘A Comet’s Journey’, Illustration from ‘Un Autre Monde’ 1844 Oxfam. I’m wondering if I should warn this is not for the faint of heart, or say don’t read on an empty stomach. If so, hereby. I know I found it hard. The first and foremost thing the BBC last week felt its audience should know about the sleaziest scandal to come out of Britain in quite some time -and that’s saying something- is that an actress had
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Vincent van Gogh Landscape with House and Ploughman 1889 • 90% Of Americans Strongly Opposed To Each Other (Onion) • Mueller’s Comic Book Indictment (David Stockman) • Foreigners Flock In As Buyers Of US Government Debt (CNBC) • Foreign Investors Cut Treasury Buying As US Flogs Record Level Of Debt (MW) • It’s Going to Be a Long Year for Bond Traders (BBG) • The Bear Still Cometh (Roberts) • Technical Charts Suggest Another Stock-Market Drop Is Coming (ElliottWave)
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Emanuel Leutze Washington Crossing the Delaware 1851 • Morgan Stanley Says Stock Slide Was Just Appetizer for The Real Deal (BBG) • Weak Dollar Could Bring 3% Boost To Global Trade Growth (BBG) • More Than 80% Of American Adults Owe Somebody Else Money (Snyder) • Thirteen Russians and a Ham Sandwich (Jim Kunstler) • Seeking Post-Brexit Unity, EU Leaders Find More Fights (AFP) • UK Has a Secret Plan to Hold Brexit Cash If EU Refuses to Trade
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