Alfred Wertheimer Elvis 1956 • What If Wall Street Is Waiting For The Wrong Disaster? (BI) • US Mortgage Rates Surge To Highest Level In 7 Years (CNBC) • Economic Numbers Are Less Than Meet the Eye (Rickards) • Argentina Went From Selling 100-Year Bonds To An IMF Rescue In 9 Months (Q.) • Turkey’s Economy Enters A ‘Slow Burning Crisis’ (CNBC) • Investors In Turkey Stunned By Erdogan’s Fight With Markets (R.) • Ecuador Spent Millions On Spy
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Henri Matisse Odalisque couchée aux magnolias 1923 • Making Money In The Stock Market Just Got A Lot More Difficult (MW) • America’s Worst Long-Term Challenges: #1- Debt. (Black) • Fifteen Thoughts About Israel (Caitlin Johnstone) • Australia Probes Claim Google Harvests Data, Makes Consumers Pay (R.) • Warning Sounded Over China’s ‘Debtbook Diplomacy’ (G.) • China Really Is To Blame For Millions Of Lost US Manufacturing Jobs (MW) • No Progress Made On Any Key Area Of Brexit
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Brassaï Cat 1945 What’s happening to John McCain is tragic. It’s not something one should ever wish upon another human being. Nor is it decent, let alone useful, to wish that he would die. Wishing bad things upon someone because they did bad things is too close for comfort to what he himself did. But it’s good to remember that his brain tumor is not the most tragic part of McCain’s life on earth. And no, neither is his
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Alfred Wertheimer Elvis 1956 • S&P 500 Should Be 1,000+ Points Lower Than Today – David Rosenberg (MW) • Why I Think the Stock Market Cannot Crash in 2018 (WS) • Italy’s Nascent Government Has Tough Economic Circles To Square (R.) • US Threatens European Companies With Sanctions After Iran Deal Pullout (G.) • May Faces Deadlock Over Brexit Customs Rules As Both Options Rubbished (Ind.) • Shoppers Desert UK High Streets (G.) • UK Metropolitan Police’s Facial Recognition
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Pablo Picasso Le repos 1932 This painting has a story. It’s very funny. Read below. • Bill Gross’s Wife Paints Fake Picasso, Swaps It With Real Thing In Divorce (NYP) • Fed To Deliver ‘Punch In The Face’ Markets Aren’t Prepared For – Boockvar (CNBC) • Who’s Most Afraid of a Latin American Debt Crisis? (DQ) • Can We Blame The Bankers? (Pettifor) • UK’s 17-Year Wage Squeeze The Worst In Two Hundred Years (Tily) • EU Set To
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder Dulle Griet, also known as Mad Meg 1563 • If Real Consumer Spending Doesn’t Reverse Course, Look Out Retail Stocks (Street) • Apple Made More Profit In 3 Months Than Amazon In Its Entire Lifetime (CNBC) • Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Collecting Texts And Call Logs (G.) • Mark Zuckerberg’s Control Of Facebook Is Like A Dictatorship: CalSTRS (CNBC) • Facebook ‘Very Serious’ About Launching Its Own Cryptocurrency (CNBC) • There Will Be
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Pablo Picasso La lecture 1932 • ‘Everything’ in Argentina is 20% to 30% Overvalued – Lacalle (BI) • About That FBI ‘Source’ (Strassel) • The Art of Breaking a Deal (Escobar) • China Walks A Fine Line In Iran (Dorsey) • Capitalism Is Collectivist (CA) • Karl Marx Sacrificed Logic On The Altar Of His Desire For Revolution (Keen) • Theresa May Turns Brexit Into Role-Reversal Game (G.) • Third of British Homeowners Priced Out Of Their Own Property
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James McNeill Whistler Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket 1875 Dr. D again. And wait, that deal was never even -legally- signed? Dr. D: I know the U.S. hasn’t followed the law in 100 years, but let’s review the Iran Deal. A “Deal” with a foreign nation is supposed to be, for 200 years has been, and legally must be, a “Treaty”. Treaties under U.S. law are unique, as they are NOT to be
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Paul Gauguin Road in Tahiti 1891 • Beware of the Coming Economic Debt Bomb (Tanous) • Argentina Looks To Be Headed For Another Economic Storm (CNBC) • At Last, A Reason To Celebrate: House Prices Are Falling (G.) • RBS Reaches $4.9 Billion Deal To Settle US Mortgage Bond Probe (R.) • The Deep State First (Stockman) • Turkey Detains Dozens Of Air Force Personnel Over Gulen Links (R.) • Did Putin Green-Light Tonight’s Massive Israeli Strikes On Syria?
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Edgar Degas Two laundresses 1876 • Fed Chair Powell To Emerging Markets: You Are On Your Own (ZH) • Argentina Seeks IMF Aid ‘To Avoid Crisis’ (BBC) • Europe On Collision Course With US Over Iran Deal (AFP) • Mnuchin: Revoking Boeing, Airbus Licenses To Sell Jets To Iran (R.) • Pompeo, In North Korea, To Return With Detained Americans (R.) • Central Banks Rigged The Cost Of Money And The State Of The Markets (Prins) • US Student
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