Frank Larson Times Square, New York 1950s • Worst Week in 2 Years for Stocks Ends on High Note (BBG) • By Betting On Calm, Did Investors Worsen The Stock Market Fall? (G.) • The Scariest Chart For The Market (ZH) • ‘Bond Vigilantes’ Are Saddled Up And Ready To Push Rates Higher (CNBC) • The Worst Of The Bond Rout Is Yet To Come, Says Piper Jaffray (CNBC) • US GDP Growth Is Not As Rosy As It
Read More...Horacio Coppola Florida y Bartolomé Mitre, Buenos Aires 1936 • Dow Plummets 1032 Points, Down 10% From Record; S&P 500 Drops 3.7% (CNBC) • Is The Decades-Long Downtrend In Interest Rates Finally Over? (MW) • US Senate Approves Budget Deal, Too Late To Avert Shutdown (R.) • Stock Market Value Wiped Out Equals $2.5 Trillion And Counting… (CNBC) • The Stock Market Is In Turmoil And It’s Not Likely To End Anytime Soon (CNBC) • Stock, Bond Investors Pay
Read More...Paul Gauguin A Day of No Gods 1894 • The State of the American Debt Slaves (WS) • Reality Returns to Wall Street (Rickards) • Plunge Protection Team To The Rescue- Again (PCR) • Weidmann: ECB Should Wind Down QE After September (WSJ) • Tesla Announces Biggest Quarterly Loss Ever (G.) • Turkey Accused Of Recruiting ISIS Fighters To Attack Kurds In Syria (Ind.) • Huge Levels Of Antibiotic Use In Us Farming Revealed (G.) • Concerns Grow Over
Read More...Jean-Michel Basquiat Aboriginal 1984 • Why Did US Stock Market Crash On Monday? Blame The Central Banks (Steve Keen) • Asian Shares On Edge As US Futures Slip (R.) • Two Tiny Volatility Products Helped Fuel Sudden Stock Slump (BBG) • Inside Wall Street’s $8 Billion VIX Time Bomb • The Death Of The “Death Of Contagion” Central Bank Meme (Luongo) • Icahn: “One Day This Thing Is Just Going To Implode” (CNBC) • Good Riddance, Janet, You Were
Read More...• Dow Jones Hit By Biggest Single-Day Points Drop Ever (Ind.) • Stocks Crumble In Vicious Sell-off As ‘Goldilocks’ Trade Unravels (R.) • Europe Joins Global Stock Selloff With Biggest Drop in 20 Months (BBG) • ‘Short-Volatility Armageddon’ Craters Two Of Wall Street’s Favorite Trades (MW) • Volatility Spike Boosts US Options Hedging Activity (R.) • Traders Panic As XIV Disintegrates -90% After The Close (ZH) • Machines Had Their Fingerprints All Over a Dow Rout for the Ages
Read More...Horacio Coppola Calle Corientes at the corner of Reconquista, Buenos Aires 1936 • Global Equity Slump Deepens as Rate Fears Grow (BBG) • Stocks Punished As Inflation Shadow Spooks Bonds (R.) • The Grand Crowded Trade Of Financial Speculation (Noland) • Don’t Panic. This Slump’s Just a Blip (BBG) • This Isn’t the Start of a Major Downturn – JPMorgan (BBG) • Gundlach: ‘Hard To Love Bonds At Even 3%’ Yield (R.) • Oil Rally Is Unraveling On Fears
Read More...John William Waterhouse Hylas and the Nymphs 1896 • A Tale Of Two Americas (Axios) • Today’s Market Is Biding Its Time Until It Becomes Normal Again (Bonner) • The Market System Is Tight In All Directions (Fas.) • Bond Market’s Debt-Ceiling Alarm Bell Is Ringing Loud and Clear (BBG) • Yellen: “I Don’t Want To Label What We’re Seeing As A Bubble” (ZH) • The Fed’s Dilemma Isn’t Going Away Under Powell (Shilling) • Theresa May Says Brexit
Read More...Frank Larson Times Square, New York 1954 • FISA Memo Released: Here’s What It Says (ZH) • Dow Plummets 666 Points, Capping Worst Week In 2 Years (CNBC) • Did The Market Just Get “Woke?” (Roberts) • Over $100 Billion Wiped Off Global Cryptocurrency Market In 24 Hours (CNBC) • Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big US Banks Recoil (BBG) • Sotu Klaatu Barada Nikto (Jim Kunstler) • UK Interest Rates Will Rise At The End Of
Read More...Vincent van Gogh Pink peach trees (Souvenir de mauve) 1888 • Trump to Release Memo Friday Morning Without Redactions (DisM) • Bank of Japan Offers ‘Unlimited’ Bond Buying To Curb Rising Yields (CNBC) • Bitcoin’s Brutal Week Is Even Worse in South Korea (BBG) • Chinese Stocks Tumble As Hong Kong ATM Withdrawals Surge (ZH) • Surprise Rise In UK House Prices As Lack Of Homes For Sale Fuels Lift (G.) • Buying Home In UK Cities At Least
Read More...Frederic Edwin Church The Parthenon 1871 • FBI Opposes Memo Release Due To “Inaccurate Information” (ZH) • Alan Greenspan Sees Bubbles in Stocks and Bonds (BBG) • Janet Yellen’s Fed Era Ends With Unanimous Vote of No Rate Hike (BBG) • Two Out Of Three UK Pension Schemes Are In The Red (Yahoo) • Secret Price Fixing Among German Carmakers (Spiegel) • Germany Reaches Limit of Support for Macron’s Europe Plans (BBG) • Hungary Rejects Macron’s ‘Arrogance’ as EU
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