Louis Anquetin Avenue de Clichy, Five O’Clock in the Evening 1887 • Sell-Offs Caused By Machines That Control 80% Of US Stock Market (CNBC) • Arrest of Huawei CFO Shows ‘The Gloves Are Now Fully Off’ – Eurasia Group (CNBC) • China May Target Us Tech Executives After Arrest Of Huawei CFO (MW) • British Telecom Removes Huawei Equipment From Parts Of 4G Network (PA) • Macron Scraps French Fuel Tax Rise Amid Nationwide Protests And Rioting (Ind.) •
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Wassily Kandinsky Painting with Houses 1909 (click for background) • Don’t Blame Trump The Tariff Man, The Fed Crashed The Market Today (F.) • Dow Plunges Nearly 800 Points On Rising Fears Of An Economic Slowdown (CNBC) • FAANG Stocks Shed $140 Billion In Tuesday’s Market Rout (CNBC) • The Art of Defaulting (Jensen) • Anarchists, Butchers And Finance Workers In Court Over Paris Riots (AFP) • French History Has Never Seen A Protest Like The Yellow Vest Movement
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Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Kendal Street, Byker, Newcastle 1969 • Yield Curve: What Bond Market Most Feared Is Starting To Happen (CNBC) • UK Government Accused Of Holding Parliament In Contempt On Legal Advice (G.) • Four Million British Workers Live In Poverty (G.) • 1.5 Million Demands For Second Referendum Handed To Downing Street (Ind.) • Europe’s Top Court To Rule On Whether The UK Can Cancel Brexit (CNBC) • ‘Death Threats’ Halt France Protest Summit (BBC) • Mueller Withheld
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Jules Adler Panorama de Paris vu du Sacré Coeur 1935 • How Trump’s Bashing Of The New York Times and CNN Has Benefited All (F24) • Dow Futures Surge After Trump And Xi Agree To Pause Trade War (CNBC) • China Agrees To ‘Reduce And Remove’ Tariffs On US Cars: Trump (AFP) • UK Faces Constitutional Crisis Over Brexit Legal Advice – Labour (BBC) • Qatar To Withdraw From OPEC, Focus On LNG Exports (R.) • Macron Tells PM
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Frans Masereel Montmartre 1925 The way ‘news’ is reported through known outlets changes so fast hardly a soul notices that news as we once knew it no longer exists. This is due to a large extent to the advent of the internet in general, and social media in particular. On the one hand this has led to an absolute overkill in ‘news’, forcing people to pick between sources once they find they can’t read or view it all,
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Claude Monet Camille Sitting on the Beach at Trouville 1870-71 • US Markets To Close On Wednesday In Honor Of George H.W. Bush • US, China Agree To Trade War Ceasefire, More Talks (AFP) • Putin Refuses To Release Ukrainian Sailors And Ships (G.) • Putin Briefs Trump Over Ukraine As EU Leaders Up Pressure (AFP) • Mattis Says Russia Tried To ‘Muck Around’ US Vote, Again (AFP) • Mueller’s RussiaGate Probe: Conflicts and Special Interests (Adam Carter) •
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Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers 1887 • The Bush Dynasty – The Modern Kennedys (BBC) • America’s Compromised Leader (Guardian Op-Ed) • Trump Calls Russia Deal ‘Legal And Cool’ As Mueller Inquiry Gathers Pace (G.) • US Judge Delays Ruling On Comey’s Request To Quash Republican Subpoena (R.) • Deep Quandaries of The Deep State (Kunstler) • US ‘Could Be Entering Cold War With China’ Over Trade – Stephen Roach (CNBC) • Trump-Xi Trade Talks Could Lead To ‘Explosion’ Higher
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