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Debt Rattle August 9 2018

Aug 092018

August 9, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:21 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Brexit, Canada, Mark Warner, protectionism, Russia, sanctions, Saudi, Tesla, Trump, yuan 14 Responses »

Eugène-Louis Boudin Laundresses on the Beach at Étretat 1892 • Behold The ‘Scariest Chart’ For The Stock Market (MW) • US Senate Calls On Julian Assange To Testify (ZH) • Senate Democrats Circulate Plans for Government Takeover of Internet (Reason) • US To Impose Fresh Sanctions On Russia Over Salisbury Attack (Ind.) • Russia Calls New US Sanctions Draconian, Rejects Poisoning Allegations (R.) • Trump’s Sanctions Admit the End of US Military Dominance (Luongo) • Saudi Arabia Is Selling

Debt Rattle August 8 2018

Aug 082018

August 8, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:20 am Finance Tagged with: Airbnb, Alex Jones, Deception, EU, Facebook, Iran, Monsanto, Musk, Saudi, Tesla, Trump, Turkey 12 Responses »

Vincent van Gogh The red tree house 1890 • Tesla Shares Soar After Elon Musk Floats Plan To Take Company Private (G.) • Securities Lawyers Shocked By Elon Musk’s Tweet (CNBC) • Alex Jones Pleads With Donald Trump To Fight ‘Censorship’ (Ind.) • US Think Tank’s Tiny Lab Helps Facebook Battle Fake Social Media (R.) • Trump’s Sanctions Causing Turmoil In Turkey (CNBC) • Turkish Banks Scramble to Stave Off Debt Crisis (DQ) • Europe ‘Needs To Get A

Assange, Infowars and the Constitution

Aug 072018

August 7, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:01 pm Primers Tagged with: Alex Jones, Assange, constitution, control, Infowars, kittens, Orwell, Secret Service, social media, Trump 11 Responses »

Vasily Polenov Christ among the teachers (doctors) 1896 This morning I woke up, looked around me, and saw a world sinking into a quagmire of voluntary censorship, a world willing to let someone far away choose what it can and cannot see of itself, and about itself. A world that no longer appears to recognize, or care, that this goes directly against its founding principles of liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. I can think of many

Debt Rattle August 7 2018

Aug 072018

August 7, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:00 am Finance Tagged with: Alex Jones, Assange, Brexit, censorship, hothouse, Infowars, methane, petition, Pooh, sanctions, Trump, Xi 4 Responses »

Eugène-Louis Boudin Beach at Étretat 1890 • Petition To Trump: Pardon Julian Assange (Infowars) • Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship (CJ) • The Myths Of Stocks For The Long Run – Part X (Roberts) • Germany’s Huge Trade Surpluses Are A Burden On Its EU Partners (CNBC) • EU Acts To Protect Firms From Donald Trump’s Sanctions Against Iran (G.) • Mattress Firm Considers Bankruptcy to Get Out of its Real Estate Scams • UK To Run Out Of

Debt Rattle August 6 2018

Aug 062018

August 6, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:20 am Finance Tagged with: Brexit, bubble, Canada, China, class war, friendship, mania, Nordstream, Saudi, Taleb, Trump, Wells Fargo 5 Responses »

Vasily Polenov Étretat 1874 • Stock Market Manias of the Past vs the Echo Bubble (Tenebrarum) • US Bond Market Takes Looming Treasuries Deluge In Stride (R.) • America 10 Years After The Financial Crisis (NYMag) • Nassim Taleb: ‘No One Who Caused The Crisis Paid Any Price’ (ST) • Fears Of A ‘Car-Crash Brexit’ Make Life Difficult For Mark Carney (G.) • Rich, Reckless Brexit Zealots Are Fighting A New Class War (G.) • Saudi Expels Canadian Envoy,

Incidents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Aug 052018

August 5, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:19 pm Finance Tagged with: allegations, America, Assange, bravery, Comey, Corbyn, freedom, Gitmo, life, narrative, Putin, Trump, Warner 9 Responses »

Incidents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Salvador Dali Spain 1936-38 (Spanish civil war) Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-semite. Julian Assange is a rapist, a Russian agent and a terrorist. Donald Trump is an anti-semite, a rapist AND a Russian agent. Vladimir Putin wants to invade and enslave the entire western world and to that end employs Assange, Trump, maybe also Corbyn(?), as well as thousands upon thousands of hackers and murderers who make people vote for whoever Putin chooses, and poison former Russian agents on

Debt Rattle August 5 2018

Aug 052018

August 5, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:57 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Big Tech, Brexit, Economics, Fed, Greece, IMF, separation, Trump, Turkey, unemployment, Wall Street 2 Responses »

Claude Monet Hollowed Cliff near Étretat 1883 • The Real Threat To The Fed’s Independence Is Wall Street, Not Trump (WM) • The Trillion-Dollar Question: Can The Tech Giants Keep Growing? (G.) • Light It Up (Kunstler) • IMF Option Looms Larger For Turkey Amid Row With US (AL M.) • Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship (Matt Taibbi) • Why Theresa May Must Stop The Brexit Clock (O.) • UK Trade Minister Fox Says EU Is Pushing

Debt Rattle August 4 2018

Aug 042018

August 4, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:38 am Finance Tagged with: austerity, Brexit, Fed, gig workers, GMO, jobs, Monsanto, Powell, Russia, Sabraw, Secret Service, Syria, unwind 3 Responses »

John French Sloan Spring rain 1912 • The Everything Bubble Has Found Its Pin. The Pin’s Name is Jerome Powell. (PC) • The Fed Accelerates its QE Unwind (WS) • US Gains Only 157,000 Jobs In July As Unemployment Falls To 3.9% (MW) • US Government Has No Idea How Many Gig Workers There Are (MW) • Mark Carney Says Risk Of A No-Deal Brexit Is ‘Uncomfortably High’ (G.) • The Conservatives Are In Crisis Over Austerity, Not Just

Gold Yuan Crypto

Aug 032018

August 3, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:31 pm Finance Tagged with: credit, crypto, debt, derivatives, dollar, Fiat, gold, inflation, reserve currency, Weimar, yuan 17 Responses »

George Caleb Bingham The verdict of the people 1854 It’s been a while since we last heard from Dr. D, but here he’s back explaining why neither gold nor the yuan nor cryptocurrencies can or will replace the dollar as the reserve currency, but together they just might: Dr. D: “Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.” –Ogden Nash Over the last year or

Debt Rattle August 3 2018

Aug 032018

August 3, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 7:36 am Finance Tagged with: Apple, buybacks, debt, food banks, PetroChina, Qatar, Saudi, Seth Rich, Tesla, Tillerson, Trump 4 Responses »

Ivan Aivazovsky The Galata tower by moonlight 1845 • The Trump Administration Is Headed For A Gigantic Debt Headache (CNBC) • The First Company To Reach $1 Trillion In Market Value Was In China (CNBC) • Apple Becomes World’s First Trillion-Dollar Company (G.) • Ban Share Buybacks (Week) • Where Are the 17,000 Model 3 Cars Tesla “Produced” But Didn’t “Deliver”? (WS) • Middle-Class Americans Still Haven’t Recovered From Housing Bust (MW) • China Loses Spot As World’s No.

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