Henri Matisse The goldfish 1912 • Greece Swaps Bailout Hell For Eternal Purgatory (R.) • Euro Is Here To Stay: German Finance Minister (R.) • Can You Think of Any Other Ways to Spend $716 Billion? (Taibbi) • Ike Was Right! (Bill Bonner) • Irish House Prices Sky-High Due To Finance Not Scarcity (Pettifor) • Trump Threatens 20% Tariff On European Union Cars (R.) • Social Security Benefits Buy 34% Less Than In 2000 (CNBC) • In 2010 Britons
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Wassily Kandinsky Yellow-Red-Blue 1925 • Could China’s Next Target Be the US Housing Market? (Forsyth) • Next Central Bank Puts QE Unwind on the Calendar (WS) • Eurogroup Deal For Greece Clinched After Marathon Session (K.) • IMF Welcomes Greek Debt Deal But Has Reservations On Long-Term (R.) • Germany Has Made Over $3 Billion Profit From Greek Crisis (KTG) • Greek GDP Is Low, But Food Prices Are High (K.) • EU Is Getting Ready For No-Deal Brexit
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Vincent van Gogh Avenue of Poplars at Sunset 1884 • Short-Sellers Sense An Opportunity As China Trade Tensions Brew (R.) • The Greatest Short-Squeeze In History (ZH) • Chinese Investment In The US Drops 90% Amid Political Pressure (CNBC) • China Warns Washington’s ‘Capricious’ Trade Actions Will Hurt US Workers (R.) • China Could Strike Back At Dow-Listed Firms Over Trade: Global Times (R.) • Deutsche Bank Troubles Raise Worries About The Future Of The Eurozone (Polleit) • Greece
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Edward Hopper New York movie 1939 • The Smart Money Gets Ready for the Next Credit Event (WS) • Global Debt Has Hit A High – Can Financial Regulators Cope? (Davies) • Stock Markets Roiled As US-China Trade Dispute Escalates (G.) • European Firms Say China Business ‘More Difficult’ (AFP) • Canada Legalises Recreational Marijuana Nationwide (Ind.) • Smearing A Dissident Journalist Is As Good As Killing Him (CJ) • “Delete Your Account” Warns Virtual Reality Founding Father (ZH)
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Paul Gauguin Why are you angry? 1896 Yes, you have every right to be outraged at the disgraceful treatment of children on America’s borders. But that does not give you the right to NOT be outraged by what America has done and is today still doing to children in, just to name a few places, Syria, Libya and Yemen. Be outraged, but don’t make it an echo chamber issue. Because if you do, you, too, are in a cage.
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos Sogni 1896 • Threatened By The Truth – Julian Assange Anniversary (IE) • 25,000 Flee As Fighting In Yemen Port City Hodeida Escalates (AP) • It’s Time To Get Enraged At What Western Imperialists Have Done To Syria (CJ) • Paul Tudor Jones Warns The Next Recession Will Be ‘Really Frightening’ (Y.) • Trump Threatens New Tariffs On $200 Billion In Chinese Goods (CNBC) • China Enters the Trade Trap (IICS) • Chasing Yield during ZIRP
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Paul Klee Pflanze und Fenster Stillleben 1927 • The US Should Break The German Lock On The European Economy (CNBC) • Merkel Gets Extra Time To Reach Deal With EU Over Asylum Row (G.) • Eurozone Braces For Row With Greece Over Bailout Exit Terms (G.) • The Bigger Cryptocurrencies Get, The Worse They Perform: BIS (R.) • May’s NHS ‘Brexit Dividend’ Claim Draws Scepticism And Doubt (G.) • FARC Peace Deal At Risk As Conservative Duque Wins Colombia
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George Grosz Apocalyptic landscape 1936 • Is Merkel’s Reign Nearing A Frustrated End? (G.) • Merkel Wants to Hold Urgent Summit With EU States on Migration Issues (Sp.) • Italy Bars Two More Refugee Ships From Ports (G.) • Spain Rescues More Than 900 Boat Migrants, Finds Four Bodies (R.) • First Migrants From Aquarius Rescue Ship Arrive At Spanish Port (Sky) • Spain Says France To Take In Aquarius Ship Migrants (AFP) • Trump Keeps His Promises On
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Paul Gauguin Nevermore 1897 • Trump Sets Tariffs On $50 Billion In Chinese Goods; Beijing Strikes Back (R.) • Why The U.S.-China Trade Deficit Is So Huge (MW) • Wall Street Builds Immunity To Trade War Rhetoric (R.) • Nomi Prins: The Central Banking Heist Has Put The World At Risk (UH) • Some Of The ‘Most Systemically Important Banks’ In The World Are Tumbling (ZH) • Merger Mania (Lebowitz) • The Key Word In The Trump-Kim Show (Escobar)
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Edward John Poynter Erato, Muse of Poetry 1870 This is something I’ve commented on many times. Like two months ago, when I wrote: “As for Donald Trump, as much as we would like to engage in constructive criticism of the man and his government, we find we no longer can. The anti-Trump echo-chamber has turned so deafening that any intelligent debate about his policies is being drowned out amid the never ending flow of fake news and half truths
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