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Debt Rattle April 20 2018

Apr 202018

April 20, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:32 am Finance Tagged with: Amazon, Brexit, bubble, Comey, cow, elephant, Erdogan, Marx, Palantir, sorghum, surveillance, Tesla, Trump

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FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail Daniel Garber The quarry 1917 • The World’s First Total Bubble (MB) • Now Even a Fed Dove Homes in on the “Everything Bubble” (WS) • Recession Risks Are Increasing – Axel Weber (CNBC) • The Faster Tesla Makes Model 3’s, The More Money They Will Lose (SM) • Marx Predicted Our Present Crisis – And Points The Way Out (Varoufakis) • Market Power Wielded By US Tech Giants Concerns IMF Chief (G.) • Bill Gates Backs Plan

Debt Rattle April 19 2018

Apr 192018

April 19, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:35 am Finance Tagged with: Brexit, criminal referral, Facebook, food waste, Greece, IMF, pardons, Porsche, Triffin, Turkey, VIX

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail Edgar Degas The laundress 1873 • Triffin Warned Us (Lebowitz) • Global Debt Has Reached A Record High, And 3 Countries Are To Blame – IMF (MW) • Dollar Bears Beware, Trump Tweets May Not Be Enough (Karamanlis) • Facebook Says Users Must Accept Targeted Ads Even Under New EU Law (R.) • Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out Of Reach Of New EU Privacy Law (R.) • VIX Rigging Talk Erupts on Wall Street After Another

The Civil War Is At Home

Apr 182018

April 18, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 5:21 pm Finance Tagged with: airstrikes, CIA, Civil War, Council of Ten, FBI, Logos, Pentagon, Russian Revolution, Syria, Trump

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail Francesco Hayez The Death of the Doge Marin Faliero 1867 Dr. D’s swift response to my essay yesterday, Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself. On the mechanisms by which empires fall. They’re always similar and familiar. Dr. D: Wonderfully said. Since no one will report, here’s what happened to that airstrike. The one where we declare a victory and go home (or try to). They targeted 10 sites, yet after the Pentagon said it was a

Debt Rattle April 18 2018

Apr 182018

April 18, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:25 am Finance Tagged with: aluminum, bitcoin, Deep State, Douma, Germany, IMF, junk, plastics, refugees, Syria, Trump, Turkey, whale

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail Franco Fontana Prague 1967 • Junk Bond Market Still in Total Denial, Fighting the Fed (WS) • World Trade System In Danger Of Being Torn Apart, Warns IMF (G.) • Eurozone Engine Sputters as German Downturn Risk Sharpens (BBG) • Bitcoin Tumbles After Mystery “Whale” Dumps $50 Million In One Trade (ZH) • Japan Asks Rusal To Stop Aluminum Shipments (ZH) • The Deep State And The Big Lie – Douma (Stockman) • Theresa May’s Husband Made A

Every Kingdom Divided Against Itself

Apr 172018

April 17, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:43 pm Finance Tagged with: America, China, Comey, complacency, divided, division, military, North Korea, Russia, Shakespeare, Syria, Trump, weapons

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail Charles Sprague Pearce Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt 1877 In Matthew 12:22-28, Jesus tells the Pharisees: Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. In 1858, US Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln borrows the line: On June 16, 1858 more than 1,000 delegates met in the Springfield, Illinois, statehouse for the Republican State Convention. At 5:00 p.m. they chose Abraham Lincoln

Debt Rattle April 17 2018

Apr 172018

April 17, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:44 am Finance Tagged with: America First, bubble, China, enron, enzyme, Facebook, freight, Libor, optimism, plastics, Tesla, ZTE

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail DPC Times Square, New York Times building under construction 1903 • How Libor’s Surge Will Help Pop The Global Bubble (Colombo) • America First – R.I.P. (David Stockman) • Optimism of US Manufacturers “Plunged” the Most Ever (WS) • US Planning To Open “Third Front” In China Trade Spat (ZH) • US Cuts Off China’s ZTE From American Tech for Seven Years (BBG) • China Industrial Output, Investment Growth Miss Expectations (R.) • Is Tesla The Next Enron?

Debt Rattle April 16 2018

Apr 162018

April 16, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:17 am Finance Tagged with: Comey, ECB, Facebook, Greece, Macron, Mueller, NATO, plastic, stock valuations, Trump, Turkey

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail James McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Pink, Red and Purple 1883-4 • US Stock Valuations Are At Multiyear Highs – And Multiyear Lows (MW) • Australia’s Lending Rules Are About to Batter Home Buyers (BBG) • Macron Says He Convinced Trump To Stay In Syria (AFP) • Trump Felt Misled, Angry Over Expulsion Of 60 Russian Diplomats (MW) • Comey And Mueller Have Both Fallen Into Trump’s Trap (MW) • A Third Of People Think Facebook Has A ‘Negative

Debt Rattle April 15 2018

Apr 152018

April 15, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:50 am Finance Tagged with: Exxon, Facebook, fracking, Lavrov, Musk, OPCW, Rovelli, Skripal, subprime, Tesla, time

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail • Russia Claims OPCW Manipulated Skripal Findings (AFP) • To Opt Out Of Facebook’s Tracking, I’m Going To Have To Join Facebook (Wired) • Tesla Is The Worst Car Manufacturer In The Developed World (F.) • New Lawsuit Alleges Musk Knowingly Lied About Model 3 Production (ZH) • Subprime Stages Comeback As ‘Non-Prime’ (CNBC) • 247,977 Stories In The Vacant City (NYDN) • Judge Rules Exxon Can’t Stop Probe Into Whether They Lied For Decades (Ind.) • World

Ours but to Die and Die

Apr 142018

April 14, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:17 pm Finance Tagged with: Brzezinski, Carlson, Chechens, Cheney, Deep State, Dore, Dr. Strangelove, MacKinder, Napoleon, Putin, Reagan, Rumsfeld, Russia

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1562 Lots of rants today, obviously, lots of -slightly- different angles.. Here’s Dr. D’s. He beat me to it… Dr. D: Too annoyed to comment on the attack. But hey, really NOT attacking would be the change here. There was a recent article, falsely saying: “[H]is successful repression of the Chechen revolt…hardly endeared Putin to the Chechens.” Oddly, this was from Russia Today. No, the

Debt Rattle April 14 2018

Apr 142018

April 14, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:54 am Finance Tagged with: constitution, data transfer, hostage, Mattis, May, missiles, Putin, Syria, Trump, US media, war

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinTumblrFlattrDiggRedditPinterestStumbleUponemail Robert Capa Anti-fascist militia women defending a street barricade, Barcelona 1936 • US Media Love War More Than They Hate Trump (Khalek) • US Defence Secretary Mattis Says ‘This Was A One-Time Shot’ – For Now (Ind.) • Why Is ‘Bad Guy’ Putin So Popular At Home? (Steve Keen) • Trump’s Actions in Syria Violate US Constitution (Kucinich) • Long Wars (Claire Connelly) • The Deep State Takes A Hostage (Stockman) • Irish High Court Sets Out 11