Mar 242020
 
BREAKING: Virus Kills Easter Bunny

James Proudfoot Sun on a House, Dieppe 1937     Famous last words?! “I would love to have it open by Easter,” Trump said in an interview Tuesday with Fox News. “I would love to have it opened up and just raring to go by Easter.” “A lot of people agree with me. Our country is not built to built to shut down. Our people are full of vim and vigor and energy. They don’t want to be locked into

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Mar 242020
 
Debt Rattle March 24 2020

DPC City Hall subway station, New York 1904   • Coronavirus Survived In Vacated Cruise Ship Cabins For Up To 17 Days (CNBC) • 46.5% Of Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Passengers, Crew Were Asymptomatic (CNN) • Italy Has A Brief Glimpse Of Hope As New Cases Drop To A 5-Day Low (SCMP) • India Faces Spike In Coronavirus Cases – Study (R.) • Coronavirus Treatment Developed By Gilead Granted “Rare Disease” Status (IC) • Man Dies After Ingesting Chloroquine (NBC)

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Mar 232020
 
Virustime

Rembrandt van Rijn Man in Oriental Costume (The Noble Slav) 1632   It’s been two weeks since I last wrote an original article. That’s a long time. Then again, that article was The Virus is a Time Machine, which was – and still is, pardon the pun, deadly accurate. All my time between then and now has gone into the daily Debt Rattles, which have increasingly become almost exclusively Virus Rattles. A lot of it has been numbers, not because

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Mar 232020
 
Debt Rattle March 23 2020

Harris&Ewing House-Capitol tunnel (may get moving walk), Washington, DC 1939   • How Long to 1 Million US Cases? (Mish) • Nobel Laureate Predicts A Quicker Coronavirus Recovery (LAT) • Canadian Doctor Rigs Ventilator to Treat 9 Patients Instead of One (IE) • Coronavirus May Have Existed In Italy Since November: Local Researcher (CGTN) • The Epicenter of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Humanitarian Crises in Italy (NEJM) • The Government Budget Deficit Is About To Explode (CNBC) • Senate Democrats

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Mar 222020
 
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Debt Rattle March 22 2020

DPC Grand Central Station and Hotel Manhattan, NY 1906   • Italy To Shut All Non-Strategic Business Activities Until April 3 (R.) • India Starts 14-Hour Curfew To Curb Virus Spread (R.) • FDA Approves New Coronavirus Test That Can Diagnose Within Hours (Solomon) • Most Cases In New York City Are Of People Under 50 (NBC) • 38 Positive For Coronavirus In NYC Jails, Including Rikers (AP) • Britain ‘Two Or Three Weeks’ Behind Italy On Coronavirus: PM Johnson

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Mar 212020
 
Debt Rattle March 21 2020

Dorothea Lange Ex-slave with long memory, Alabama 1937   • Coronavirus – Getting Angry (John Bronte) • China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World (Atlantic) • From ‘Chinese virus’ to ‘Trumpandemic’ (RT) • Cuomo Orders New York Lockdown, Shuts Down Non-Essential Businesses (NYP) • New Best Friends: Trump And Archfoes Cuomo And Newsom Bond (JTN) ) • Trump’s Approval Rating Soars During Handling Of Coronavirus (JTN) • Biden Plans Shadow Coronavirus Briefings (Pol.) • Cuba’s Interferon Alpha 2B, Successful

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Mar 202020
 
Debt Rattle March 20 2020

David Hockney Do remember they can’t cancel the spring 2020 (released for corona crisis)     • “We’re Not Even Counting The Dead Any More” (R.) • One Iranian Dies Of Coronavirus Every 10 Minutes, 50 Get Infected Every Hour (RT) • Madrid Reports One Coronavirus Death Every 16 Minutes (MT) • Young Adults Make Up A Big Part Of US Coronavirus Hospitalizations (CNN) • France Tightens COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions To ‘Max 2km From Home’ (RT) • Severe Restrictions On

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Mar 192020
 
Debt Rattle March 19 2020

DPC Cab stand at Madison Square, NY c1900   • ‘A Generation Has Died’ (G.) • Scientists Say Mass Tests In Italian Town Have Halted COVID-19 (G.) • Japanese Flu Drug ‘Clearly Effective’ Against Coronavirus, But.. (G.) • UK Failures Over COVID-19 Will Increase Death Toll, Says Leading Doctor (G.) • Asian Nations Face Second Wave Of Imported Cases (BBC) • Dollar Resumes Ascent As Investors Panic, Scramble For Cash (R.) • Cash Is King As Emergency Stimulus Fails To

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Mar 182020
 
Debt Rattle March 18 2020

Matson Aircraft refueling at Semakh, British Mandate Palestine 1931   • Global Powers Unleash Trillions Of Dollars To Stem Coronavirus Crisis (R.) • We’re at a Real Risk of Financial Markets Being Closed – Bianco (NZZ) • The Lesson (Henrich) • Boeing Seeks ‘Tens Of Billions’ In Bailouts (ZH) • Hotel Industry To Ask Trump For $150 Billion In Aid (LAT) • American Indian Casinos Close For Coronavirus, Seek $18 Billion Aid (R.) • Mnuchin Warns Senators Of 20% US

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Mar 172020
 
Debt Rattle March 17 2020

Edwin Rosskam Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago’s main Negro business street 1941   • A View From Italy’s Coronavirus Frontline (G.) • The UK Only Woke Up “In The Last Few Days” (BF) • Julian Assange’s Mother Calls For His Immediate Release Over COVID19 Fears (ES) • Americans Get a Taste of Life Under Sanctions (MPN) • De Blasio Urges ‘Nationalization’ Of Key Industries (Fox) • Spain Takes Over Private Healthcare Amid More Lockdowns (G.) • Mitt Romney’s Coronavirus Economic Plan:

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