Pablo Picasso Man with straw hat and ice cream cone 1938 • JPMorgan: The Fed Will Need To Restart QE Soon • How Jeffrey Epstein Got His Hooks Into Les Wexner (William D. Cohan) • These Are The Dying Days Of A Rancid Old Order (Hutton) • The Very Idea Of A United Kingdom Is Being Torn Apart By Toxic Nationalism (G.) • Cross-Party Schemes Drawn Up To Prevent A Johnson No-Deal Brexit (O.) • No 10 Cancels Staff
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Pablo Picasso Man with ice cream cone 1938 My first thought after reading about Jeffrey Epstein’s so-called suicide is: let it go, watch a movie instead, or go out to dinner. But a suicide of someone under suicide watch is just too much. And then I understand NBC -oh wait, and Reuters too- said he wasn’t even on suicide watch anymore. A guy who allegedly tried to kill himself two weeks ago. But of course. Why should he be?
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Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001 The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unsealed a batch of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case today, as announced recently. Actually, it’s a case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s madam and main procurer of little girls. Giuffre bought the case after Maxwell accused her of lying about the whole thing. There’s still much more of this to come, and given the VIP
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Edward Hopper Ground swell 1939 The US government has to come up with very very strong legislation for social media, and it has to do that very soon. Because if it doesn’t, it risks those same social media inciting a civil war (that’s no hyperbole, that is real) on American soil. And beyond as well, but as Donald Trump said about European efforts to curtail Twitter, Facebook et al’s activities, they’re American companies and hence America’s responsibility. Well, cool,
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Piet Mondriaan New York City I 1942 • Globalization As We Know It Will Not Survive Trump (G.) • The Technological Revolution Devours its Children (Dmitry Orlov) • Donald Trump More Popular Today Than In 2016 (Raw) • New York Times Stock Price Has Soared During Trump’s Presidency (R.) • MMT May Be Democrats’ Economic Cure, But Only Trump Got The Memo (R.) • New Rebel Bid To Halt No-Deal Brexit Amid Fury At PM’s Enforcer (G.) • Deal
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Pablo Picasso Portrait of Dora with bun 1937 • The Future Of Britain Is In The Hands Of Unelected Svengali Cummings (Oborne) • No-Deal Brexiteers Are Winning Because They Want It More (Sky) • UK Too Desperate To Secure US Trade Deal – Larry Summers (G.) • Brexit: Michael Gove Accuses ‘Wrong And Sad’ EU Of Intransigence (G.) • Met Police Examine Vladimir Putin’s Role In Salisbury Attack (G.) • China State Banks Seen Supporting Yuan In Forwards Market
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Odilon Redon Peyrelebade landscape 1880 It’s never easy to gauge what exactly is happening in China, or why the CCP Politburo takes the decisions it does. Today, or overnight, is no exception to that. However, one thing that appears certain, but which I don’t see reflected in all the analyses, is that Beijing pushing the value of the renminbi (yuan) down below 7 to the USD in one fell swoop, is a major setback for Xi Jinping and his
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Piet Mondriaan Study for Blue Apple Tree Series 1908 • Currency War Begins: China Crashes Yuan Past 7, Halts US Agri Imports (ZH) • China Lets Yuan Slump Past 7 Per Dollar For First Time In Over A Decade (R.) • Hong Kong Brought To A Standstill As City-Wide Strikes And Protests Hit (G.) • Job Growth In Trump Land Is Dead In The Water (MW) • 10 Alarming Things About The Economy That Politicians Won’t Tell You (MW)
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Julie Edgley Immature white tailed eagle. • An Economy Based on Plunder (PCR) • Economics Is A Failing Discipline Doing Great Harm (Simms) • Joe Biden To Millennials: Stop Complaining (HPo) • Dominic Cummings: UK Lawmakers Can’t Stop No-Deal Brexit (R.) • Justice Dept Bill Comes Due For Russiagate Costs (RT) • Celebrities, Royals, Politicians Fear Release Of Jeffrey Epstein Files (Tel.) • California Scrubs Controversial Kamala Harris-Era Arrest Reports • America’s Elites: Fractured and At Odds with Each
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Edward Hopper The long leg 1935 Last weekend, I noticed that two of the main newsmakers were both named Cummings, one in the US, the other in the UK. At first glance they don’t look like family, but I’ll readily admit I can’t be sure of that. What I do know is that both are symbolic of what’s wrong with the political systems they figure in. Also last weekend, I saw a comment somewhere, think it was Twitter, that
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