Astor Theater, Times Square NYC 1945 • Monetary Policy In The Grip Of A Pincer Movement (BIS) • The Arithmetic of Risk (John Hussman) • BOJ’s Kuroda Joins Queue of Central Banks Looking Toward Exit (BBG) • Trump’s Trade War Is For The Forgotten People (Eric Peters) • Italy Faces Political Gridlock After 5-Star Surges (R.) • China Sets 2018 GDP Target at About 6.5%, Turns Fiscal Screws (BBG) • Tax the Wealth of Older Britons to Help the
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James McNeill Whistler Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea 1871 • Global Bond Markets Have Become Grotesquely Distorted – Jim Grant (ZH) • From Currency War To Trade War To Shooting War (Rickards) • Central Banks Are The Agents Of Baby Boomers (G.) • Osborne’s Austerity Has Left UK Social Fabric In Tatters (Pettifor) • How America’s Clean Coal Dream Unravelled (G.) • Putin’s Megyn Kelly Interview (ZH) • Germany’s SPD Votes For Coalition Handing Merkel Fourth Term (G.)
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Vincent van Gogh Lilac Bush 1889 • Juncker Threatens Tariffs On Harley-Davidson, Bourbon And Levi’s (G.) • Fed’s QE Unwind Marches Forward Relentlessly (WS) • S&P 500 Companies To Buy Back $800 Billion Of Their Own Shares This Year (MW) • End Times at the OD Corral (Jim Kunstler) • Theresa May Unveils Fragile Truce In Third Brexit Offering (G.) • Eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (USNews) • Low-Level Courts Turned Into Dickensian “Debt Collection Mills” (ICept) •
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Harold Steggels Essex landscape 1932 • Trump’s Steel And Aluminum Tariffs Trigger Market Sell-Off In US, Asia (G.) • Trump’s Tariffs Throw a Wrench in the Global Trading System (BBG) • S&P 500 Breaks Below 100-Day Average Technical Inflection Point (BBG) • JFK-Trump S&P500 Analog Chart (MW) • NRA Members On Trump Gun Control Plans: ‘Every Word Of It Was A Betrayal’ (G.) • Putin On New US Nuclear Stance: If Attacked, Russia Will Use Nukes (RT) • China
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Paramount Theater, Times Square NYC 1956 • Donald Trump Stuns Allies By Signalling Backing For Tighter Gun Control (G.) • Members of Congress Are Petrified of The NRA, Says Trump (Ind.) • Where Did The Republican Trump-Haters Go? (BBC) • This Has Predicted Every Market Crash in History (Bonner) • US January Pending Home Sales Crash Most Since 2010 (ZH) • Hawk Or Dove? Fed’s Powell Showed Markets Both Sides In Debut (R.) • Trump Says US Will Use
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