Vincent van Gogh Peasant burning weeds 1883 • Dow Plunges 600 Points As Apple Leads Tech Rout (CNBC) • The Economic Consequences Of Debt (Roberts) • The Fed Supports Capital In Its Eternal War With Labor (Hunt) • China State Banks Selling Dollars In FX Market To Arrest Yuan Losses (R.) • Goldman Sachs Down Most In 7 Years On 1MDB, ‘Fear Of The Unknown'(BBG) • Banking Consolidation In Europe Is ‘Inevitable’ – UBS Chief (CNBC) • China Scours
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Ivan Kramskoy Christ in the desert 1920 If and when a former Rothschild banker starts telling us what the words in our respective languages actually mean, beware. Even if he has dozens of professional speech writers and spin doctors to do it for him. And even if the meaning and interpretation of words, though they may seem easily translatable, differ between English, French, German, Russian, Chinese to such an extent that Lost in Translation may appear to be an
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Vincent van Gogh Burning weeds 1883 • Macron: Nationalism Is A “Betrayal Of Patriotism” (Ind.) • Putin Says Had Good Conversation With Trump In Paris (AFP) • Eastern Ukraine Elects Separatist Leaders As West Rejects Polls (AFP) • May Says Britain Open To ‘Different Relationship’ With Russia (R.) • Boris Johnson Says Britain On Verge Of ‘Total Surrender’ In Brexit Talks (R.) • May Shelves Crunch Brexit Talks With Cabinet (Ind.) • Alibaba Has Record $30.8 Billion In Sales
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Hannah Höch Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany 1919 Ilargi: This is part 2 of Alexander Aston’s view of how upheaval and collapse can lead to new insights, new bursts of creativity, in science, religion, society and the arts. Part 1 of Quantum, Jazz and Dada can be found here. Part 3 will follow soon. Check TheAutomaticEarth.com. Here’s Alexander: Quantum, Jazz and Dada: The Dynamic Symmetry of
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Paul Gauguin Christ in the garden of olives 1889 • China Can Never Allow Its Housing Bubble To Burst (ZH) • One Thing Unites Britain (O.) • Four UK Ministers On Verge Of Quitting, EU Rejects Latest Plan (R.) • Top Tory Says Theresa May Is ‘Handing Power To EU’ In Brexit Deal (G.) • Khashoggi Murder Fails To Stop Britain Selling Arms To The Saudis (O.) • Saudi Arabia Wants To Cut OPEC Allies Oil Output By Up
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Peter Stackpole SophiaLoren in a Manhattan Coffee, NYC 1958 • Burying the Other Russia Story (WSJ Op-Ed) • No Blue Wave In 2018, But A Tsunami Of Hate (ZH) • Post Mortem (Kunstler) • ‘Democrats Won The House But Trump Won The Election’ – And 2020 Is Next (G.) • Federal Court Asks How Sessions Ouster Impacts Lawsuit Challenging Mueller (R.) • Tech’s Big Five Lost A Combined $75 Billion In Market Value On Friday (CNBC) • Yelp Craters
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Marcel Duchamp Nude descending a staircase 1912 Ilargi: Much to my surprise, I received a mail from an old friend. Alexander Aston last wrote for the Automatic Earth in 2014. But he hasn’t been idle. Alexander is presently finishing his doctorate in archeology at Oxford, after prior degrees in philosophy and history. And for this article, he’s been thinking about how upheaval and collapse tend to lead to new insights, new bursts of creativity, in science, religion, society
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Paul Henry Altan Lough, Donegal 1933-34 • Larry King: CNN Stopped Doing News A Long Time Ago. They Do Trump (ZH) • Democrats Want Healthcare Protected – And Trump Impeached (R.) • The Fed Stands Pat on Thursday, What’s Next? (Street) • US Sues UBS, Alleges Crisis-Era Mortgage Securities Fraud (R.) • Frail Mikhail Gorbachev Warns Against Return To The Cold War (R.) • Corbyn Advisor Economist Mariana Mazzucato Has UK Residency Bid Rejected (G.) • As Renewables Drive
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Pablo Picasso Juan-Les-Pins 1920 • White House Pulls CNN’s Jim Acosta’s Media Credentials (ZH) • Will Mueller Use “Constructive Discharge” To Challenge Sessions Replacement? • Big Investors Sue 16 Banks In US Over Currency Market Rigging (R.) • The United States Is Going Broke (Rickards) • Japan Machinery Orders Hit By Worst-Ever Slump In September (R.) • China October Exports Surprisingly Strong In Race To Beat US Tariffs (R.) • EU’s Vestager Says Probe Into Google AdSense Case Nearing
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M. C. Escher Drawing hands1948 • The Investigations Trump Will Face Now That Democrats Control the House (NY) • Paul Ryan On Midterms: ‘Tonight History Has Repeated Itself’ (Hill) • Ex-JP Morgan Trader Pleads Guilty To Manipulating US Metals Markets (CNBC) • Italy’s Battle With Brussels Is About More Than Money (Molinari) • EU Austerity Bias Is To Blame For Budget Standoff With Italy (Ind.) • Wanted: Radical Economist To Boost UK Economy (G.) • EU Stumbles In Plan
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