FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Odilon Redon Street in Samois 1888 • UK Economy Contracts On Back Of Brexit Uncertainty (G.) • The Dramatic Drop In Sterling Is Only A Taste Of What Is To Come (G.) • Johnson Plotting Abuse Of Power To Force No-Deal Brexit – Corbyn (G.) • Andrew McCabe Sues DOJ, FBI Over “Politically Motivated Firing” (ZH) • Uber Loses $5.2 Billion on $3.2 Billion in Revenue (WS) • Italy’s Matteo Salvini Calls For Fresh Elections As Coalition Fractures
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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,
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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.) •
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Piet Mondriaan Avond (Evening): The Red Tree 1908-10 • Yuan, Futures Surge After PBOC Fix Is Stronger Than Expected (ZH) • China’s Yuan Steadies But Stocks Plunge As Trade Tensions Grow (R.) • Kyle Bass: Yuan Would Collapse 30%-40% If China Stopped Supporting It (CNBC) • US Designates China As Currency Manipulator For First Time In 25 Years (R.) • China State Media Says US ‘Destroying International Order’ (R.) • China Confirms It Is Suspending US Farm Products
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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,
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Dorothea Lange Migrant Father June 1938 • Russian Assets In America: A Field Guide (RT) • Majority of House Democrats Favor Starting Impeachment Proceedings (R.) • The Rise and Fall of Superhero Robert Mueller (Matt Taibbi) • Obama Looms over the Primary in Invisible Ways (TPM) • Race Hustle (Jim Kunstler) • Tory Rebels Threaten Boris Johnson After Majority Cut To One (G.) • Watch Out Boris Johnson the Chickens are Coming Home to Roost (English) • Pentagon
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Pablo Picasso Bathers with a toy boat 1937 • The Giant Sucking Sound of Financial Repression (WS) • Dutch Bank ING Warns Against Further ECB Money Printing (R.) • Trump’s $300 Billion China Tariff Threat Sends Markets Into Tailspin (G.) • Rate Cut Odds Surge After Tariff Announcement (ZH) • US Tariffs Risk Reviving Chinese Zombies (R.) • The EU Has New People In Charge. It’s Not Good News For US Tech Firms (CNBC) • EU Governments Seek
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