Pablo Picasso Women of Algiers (after Delacroix) 1955 • The British Government’s Russia Nerve Agent Claims Are Bullshit (Nafeez Ahmed) • UK Claims Questioned About Source Of Salisbury Novichok (G.) • Buying Stocks Now Is Betting On Buybacks (F.) • Has Europe Really Recovered From Its 2008 Financial Meltdown? (Steve Keen) • UK Household Debt Levels Close To 2008 Peak (Ind.) • UK Economy In Grip Of Most Feeble Recovery On Modern Record – IFS (Ind.) • More Than
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Vincent van Gogh Sprig of Flowering Almond in a Glass 1888 • One Of The Greatest Minds Ever To Live Dies Age 76 (Ind.) • Trump Unmasked 68 Years Of Washington Duplicity (Stockman) • What Secretary of State Tillerson’s Firing Means (Paul Craig Roberts) • New CIA Director Gina Haspel Once Ran A Torture Site (Qz) • Theresa May Plans For ‘Economic War’ With Vladimir Putin And His Allies (Ind.) • False Flags for Newbies (Dmitry Orlov) • Google
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Mayfair Building, Times Square NYC 1954 • Sea Change Is Underway in Money Markets for Banks, Investors (BBG) • The Real Reasons Trump Blocked Broadcom’s Qualcomm Takeover (CNBC) • Donald Trump’s Attack on German Prosperity (Spiegel) • Trump Pushes EU to Cut Tariffs as Bloc Vows to Resist ‘Bullies’ (BBG) • Trump’s Metal Tariffs ‘Like An Atomic Bomb’ For European Firms (CNBC) • Is The Dot.Com Bubble Back? (Roberts) • China Plans New Ministries, Merger Of Regulators In Massive
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Lewis Wickes Hine Labourer on connector, Empire State Building, New York 1930-31 • On The Bull Market’s Ninth Birthday (CNBC) • ‘No Response’ Yet From North Korea On Trump Talks (BBC) • Kim Jong Un Wants a Peace Treaty From Trump (BBG) • China Banking Crisis Warning Signal Still Flashing – BIS (BBG) • Don’t Count On Beijing To Resolve Fallout From Any Debt Blowup (CNBC) • Asia’s Big Developers ‘More Vulnerable’ to Shocks – BIS (BBG) • Japan
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James McNeill Whistler Nocturne Blue and Gold Southampton Water 1872 • $21 Trillion And Rising: Central Banks’ Leveraged Buyout of The World (ZH) • The $233 Trillion Dollar Dark Cloud of Global Debt (GT) • Trump Is Going For A Clean Reset in The West Wing (Vanity Fair) • Trump ‘Clarity’ on Tariff Conditions Not What EU Was Looking For (BBG) • China Ties Future to Xi as Congress Scraps President Term Limits (BBG) • Putin Says He ‘Couldn’t
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Pablo Picasso The Roaster 1938 • Trump Tariffs Cause Massive Outflows From US Stocks – BofAML (R.) • Trump-Kim Meeting Contingent On ‘Concrete Steps’ By North Korea (Ind.) • What’s Coming Will Be Much Worse Than 2008 (Phoenix) • 313k Jobs Added? Nice Try But It’s Fake News (IRD) • QE Unwind Is Too Slow, Says Fed Governor, Thus Launching First Trial Balloon (WS) • Forget About ‘Free Trade’ (CHS) • Europe’s Most-Leveraged Stocks Surge (BBG) • Cash May
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Broadway, New York 1954 • Trump’s Historic Bet on Kim Summit Shatters Decades of Orthodoxy (BBG) • Trump Sets Steel And Aluminum Tariffs; Canada, Mexico Exempted (R.) • There Will Be No Economic Boom – Part II (Roberts) • “Gary Cohn, We Hardly Knew Ya” (David Stockman) • The Risk Lurking In The US Mortgage Market (CNN) • The End of Cheap Debt Will Bring a Wave of – Green- Bankruptcies (Mises) • Tesla Chief Musk Says China Trade
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Paul Gauguin Tahitian village 1892 • We May Have Hit ‘Peak Trade’ Even Without Trump’s Tariffs – UBS (CNBC) • China’s Exports Surge At The Fastest Pace In 3 Years (R.) • 42% of Americans Are Set To Retire Broke (CNBC) • Trump’s Volley (Lebowitz) • Divorced From Reality (RIA) • A Currency War Is Coming – With Japan (BBG) • Hallelujah! The Squid Regency At The White House Is Finally Over (Stockman) • Canada, Mexico to Get Initial
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Lewis Wickes Hine Italian family in the baggage room, Ellis Island, New York 1905 • Currency Investors Are Bracing for a Full-Blown Trade War (BBG) • Trump Sticks With Tariff Plan, Warns EU On Trade (R.) • Europe Renews Tariffs On Chinese Steel Pipes As High As 72% (ZH) • US Considers Broad Curbs on Chinese Imports, Takeovers (BBG) • With Cohn Gone, Peter Navarro Is Unleashed At White House (CNBC) • It’s Not Bad Trade Deals, It’s Bad
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Vincent van Gogh Le Moulin à Poivre, Montmartre 1887 • EU Proposes Retaliatory Tariff of 25% Against U.S. Goods (BBG) • Trump’s Tariff Threat On European Cars Could Spell Big Trouble For Germany (CNBC) • Retail Investor Bullishness Collapses (WS) • World’s ‘Shadow Banks’ Continue To Expand (R.) • China to Ease Bad-Loan Provision Rules to Support Growth (BBG) • China Faces an ‘Impossible Challenge’ on Budget, Tax and GDP (BBG) • China’s Coming Meltdown Will Rapidly Spread to
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