Mattia Preti The Adoration of the Shepherds 1660-99 • More Than Half A Million Americans Will Be Homeless This Christmas (F.) • Dow Dives 400 Points To End Its Worst Week In 10 Years (CNBC) • NY Fed President John Williams: Central Bank Is Listening To The Market (CNBC) • Shutdown Begins As Trump, Democrats Wrestle Over Border Wall (ZH) • A Fretful Holiday (Kunstler) • Chinese Leaders Promise Tax Cuts To Boost Flagging Economic Growth (CNBC) • Goldman
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder Hunters in the snow 1565 • Dow Drops 470 Points To 14-Month Low In Day 2 Of Big Losses After Fed Hike (CNBC) • As Fear Rises On Wall Street, Strategists Warn The Worst Is Yet To Come (CNBC) • US Defense Chief Mattis Quits As Trump Pulls From Syria, Afghanistan (AFP) • House Passes Spending Bill With Border Wall Money, Senate Showdown Next (CNBC) • China Denies ‘Slanderous’ Economic Espionage Charges From US Allies
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Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and Female Saint 1500-04 • It’s 100 days to Brexit (Ind.) • Powell Breaks The Market (ZH) • A Major Technical Breakdown Just Occurred In Stocks (Colombo) • Peter Schiff : Not A Bear Market But ‘A House Of Cards The Fed Built’ (MW) • Asian Shares Battered After Fed Raises Rates For Fourth Time (G.) • Short-Term Funding Bill Announced To Stop Trump’s Government Shutdown (Ind.) • Trump
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Francisco Goya Fire at night 1793-94 • Fed Expected To Move Forward With Rate Hike, Despite Trump (CNBC) • Has “BTFD” Become “STFR”? (Roberts) • Oil Slump Could Get Much Worse Amid Oversupply Concerns (CNBC) • Alan Greenspan Has A New Warning For Investors: ‘Run For Cover’ (CNBC) • Revenge Of The Spies: Flynn Case Shows Extent Of Anti-Trump #Resistance (Malic) • This Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work (Ellen Brown) • Thousands Of
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Titian The rape of Europe 1560-62 It took me a while to decide which word(s) best define the past year and the next one, but I think this is pretty much it. 2018 was chaotic more than anything else, and that chaos will give rise to mayhem in 2019. What I think is striking is that this is true across the board, in all walks of life so to speak. In finance, in politics, in energy markets, in ecological
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Caravaggio St. John the Baptist in the wilderness 1604 • S&P 500 Drops More Than 2% To New Low For 2018, Dow Dives 500 Points (CNBC) • The Latest Key Death Cross Is Poised To Engulf The Stock Market (MW) • Stock Market On Pace For Worst December Since Great Depression (CNBC) • How The Federal Reserve Could Spark A ‘Santa Claus’ Stock Rally (Yahoo!) • You Have A “Trading” Problem (Roberts) • China Politics Getting In The Way
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Arnold Böcklin The Isle of Life 1888 • Market Meltdown Could Spark Conditions ‘Worse Than 1929’- Ron Paul (CNBC) • For The First Month Since 2008, Not A Single Junk Bond Prices (ZH) • Starvation, Homelessness And More REAL Problems Pushed Aside By Brexit (Mi.) • Average UK Home Asking Price Dips £10,000 From October (G.) • No 10 Denies Making Plans For Second Brexit Referendum (G.) • May To Urge MPs Not To ‘Break Faith’ By Demanding People’s
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Paul Klee Carnival in the snow 1923 • Why The Fed Won’t Save The Stock Market (MW) • Why The US-China Trade Talks Will Work: The Personal Touch (Kuhn) • 12 Months Of Bitcoin Misery (MW) • Failed By Both Major Parties, Betrayed Britain Lurches Towards The Abyss (G.) • British Minister Warns Brexit Is Stuck As No-Deal Or Referendum Loom (R.) • UN Climate Change Talks Avoid Contentious Issues In Draft Agreement (O.) • Deportations Under Trump Are
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Vincent van Gogh Road menders at Saint-Remy 1889 • US Banks See Biggest Unrealized Losses On Securities Since Q1 2009 (WS) • European Banks’ €300 Billion Race To The Bottom (BBG) • Global Debt Hits All-Time High Of $184,000,000,000,000 (RT) • Act V: Yellow Vests Prepare For Massive ‘Macron Resign’ Protest (RT) • Senior Tories Tell May To Work With Corbyn To Save Her Brexit Deal (Ind.) • Theresa May’s Brexit Strategy Left Brutally Exposed By Brussels Failure (G.)
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Paul Signac Boulevard de Clichy under snow 1886 • ECB To Halt €2.6 Trillion Stimulus Despite Eurozone Slowdown Concerns (G.) • Shipping Costs From China To The US More Than Doubled In 2018 (CNBC) • China Reports ‘Ugly’ Industrial Output And Retail Sales Growth (CNBC) • Average UK Worker Earns A Third Less Than In 2008 (PA) • EU Leaders Scrap Plans To Help Theresa May Pass Brexit Deal (Ind.) • Labour Plans To ‘Throw Kitchen Sink’ To Force
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