Emil Nolde Zwei Schwimmer1914 • Rising Rates Are Killing The Housing Market (Roberts) • Libor Surges Most In 8 Months, Squeezing $200 Trillion In Credit (ZH) • How Jay Powell Could Be Walking His Tightrope (Street) • German Police Raid Deutsche Bank Offices In Money Laundering Probe (CNBC) • Manafort’s Passport Stamps Don’t Match “Fabricated” Assange Story (ZH) • Cohen Pleads Guilty For Misstatements To Congress About Russia (Hill) • Has Prime Minister May Just Signed Her Own Warrant
Read More...Gustave Caillebotte Paris Street, Rainy Day 1884 • Trump Adviser Sought WikiLeaks Emails Via Farage Ally – Mueller Document (G.) • Assange Never Met Manafort. Guardian Publishes More MI6 Lies (Murray) • Trump Threatens To Declassify ‘Devastating’ Docs About Democrats (NYP) • Fed Warns A ‘Particularly Large’ Plunge In Market Prices Is Possible (CNBC) • Fed’s Powell Sends Markets Soaring With Suggestion Rate Hikes May Slow (WaPo) • Obama Administration Used Tear Gas, Pepper Spray At Border Dozens Of
Read More...Yasuhiro Ishimoto Chicago 1959 • Stock Market Selloff Only Half-done, Final Leg In 2019 – Morgan Stanley (MW) • Home Prices Have Surged, Government’s Share Of Mortgages Will Too (MW) • Trump Says ‘Not Even A Little Bit Happy’ With Fed’s Powell (R.) • Manafort’s Lawyer Repeatedly Briefed Trump Attorneys On Mueller Talks (ZH) • If Manafort Visited Assange There Should Be Ample Evidence (Greenwald) • Manafort Plans To Explore “All Legal Options” Against The Guardian (ZH) • Poroshenko
Read More...Berthe Morisot The old track to Auvers 1863 Our politicians and media are not going to allow us to see Russia, and any incidents the country can be linked to, in any other way than black and white, in which we are the good party and they are the black, evil and guilty ones. So we’ll have to do that ourselves. More than enough has been said about why NATO should have been dismantled when the reason for its
Read More...Otto Dix Ice drift 1940 • Putin ‘Seriously Concerned’ After Ukraine Votes To Impose Martial Law (G.) • The Latest Ukronazi Provocation In The Kerch Strait (Saker) • Trump Says He Isn’t Happy With GM Decision To Shed 14,700 Jobs (G.) • GM Cuts 14,700 Jobs As Auto Bubble Begins To Burst (Colombo) • Tesla China Sales Plunge 70% In October (R.) • May’s Brexit Deal Sounds Like A ‘Great Deal For The EU’ – Trump (G.) • Theresa May’s
Read More...Vincent van Gogh On the Outskirts of Paris 1887 • Russia Seizes Three Ukrainian Naval Ships In The Black Sea (AP) • Not Remotely Possible For May’s Brexit Deal To Pass Parliament – UK MP (CNBC) • UK High Court To Rule If Brexit Vote ‘Void’ As Early As Christmas (Ind.) • Nineteen Months Of Brexit Wrangling – And That’s Just A Taster (BBC) • Business Leaders Rally Behind May’s Brexit Deal Amid Fears Of Crashing Out (G.) •
Read More...Floris van Schooten Still-Life with Glass, Cheese, Butter and Cake 1st half 17th century • Assange Lawyers Barred From Visiting Client Ahead Of US Court Hearing (ZH) • ‘He Has Moved Incredibly Quickly’: Mueller Nears Trump Endgame (G.) • One Of The Most Spectacularly Misleading Uses Of Statistics Ever (Porter) • Russia A Greater Threat Than ISIS or Al-Queda – New British Army Chief (PA) • European Security Held Hostage By Washington’s Geopolitical Games – Lavrov (RT) • Why
Read More...Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sun Rising over Water 1825-30 • Britain’s Opposition Labour Party Plots Overthrow Of Capitalism (R.) • This Sell-Off is Just One Step in Methodical Unwind of Stock Prices (WS) • Oil Plunges More Than 6% Despite Potential OPEC Cut (R.) • Bitcoin Loses 25% Of Its Remaining Value During Thanksgiving Week (CNBC) • Trump Dismisses Report He Is Unhappy With Treasury’s Mnuchin (R.) • Holiday Doings and Undoings (Kunstler) • Rising Fuel Price Protests
Read More...René Magritte Golconda 1953 • 438 Stocks on the NYSE Plunged 40%-94% from 52-Week Highs (WS) • Margin Debt Plunges, Next Up: Margin Calls (WS) • QE Created Dangerous Financial Dependence, Italy Hooked, Withdrawal Next (DQ) • Bitcoin Price Crash Causes Bankruptcy And Mass Mine Closures (Ind.) • UK’s Poorest Dying Nearly 10 Years Younger Than Rich (Ind.) • MPs Unite To Condemn May’s ‘Blindfold Brexit’ (Ind.) • Yanis Varoufakis: “The EU Declared War And Theresa May Played Along”
Read More...Rembrandt van Rijn Study of the Head and Clasped Hands of a Young Man as Christ in Prayer 1655 • Mortgage Rates Slide May Be Too Late For The Housing Market (MW) • A $9 Trillion Corporate Debt Bomb Is ‘Bubbling’ In The US Economy (CNBC) • Multiple Risks Are Converging on Markets (Rickards) • May In Brussels Dash As Merkel Threatens To Pull The Plug On Brexit Summit (G.) • Salvini Ready To ‘Confront EU’ After Italy’s Budget
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