FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Jerry Bywaters Oil Field Girls 1940 • Investors Managing $32 Trillion In Assets Call For Climate Change Action (R.) • BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil Face Shareholder Challenge Over Carbon Targets (G.) • Bear Market Is Here, Stocks To Plunge At Least 20% – Ned Davis Research (CNBC) • Everyone Is Bearish But No-One Is Short (ZH) • Senior Tory Vultures Circle With May On Brink (Ind.) • EU’s Top Court Says UK Can Unilaterally Stop Brexit (R.) • UK
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Edouard Manet Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets 1872 • Incoming House Judiciary Chair Planning To End Probe Into FBI, DOJ (ZH) • France Is The New Tax Hell In Europe And Beyond (RT) • Paris Under Siege As Gilets Jaunes Open ‘Act IV’ – 4th Weekend Of Protest (O.) • No Hope Of Success And No Plan B – But Theresa May Won’t Blink (O.) • UK Cabinet Splits Over Second Referendum On Brexit Deal (G.)
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Rembrandt van Rijn Bathsheba at her bath 1654 (see video at the bottom) There are not many things that I’m allergic to. But there are some. Here’s a good example: bigotry. Behold, in the article quoted below, the danger of political correctness in all its glory. A 30-year old Christmas song, Fairytale of New York, it is claimed, must be censored or banned. For a reason I’ll explain, such things always make me think of Rembrandt’s painting “Bathsheba
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Getty Vigil in front of White House on the evening after Pearl Harbor attack Dec. 7 1941 • France Braced For ‘Ultra-Violent’ Protests (BBC) • S&P 500 Closes In An Official ‘Death Cross’ (CNBC) • A Death Cross For The S&P 500 Highlights A Stock Market In Tatters (MW) • Dow Down Over 500 Points, Wipes Out 2018 Gains In Wild Week On Wall Street (CNBC) • George H. W. Bush, Wimp (Matt Taibbi) • Five Eyes Against
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Paul Almasy Paris 1950 The concept of the EU might have worked, but still only might have, if a neverending economic boom could have been manufactured to guide it on its way. But there was never going to be such a boom. Or perhaps if the spoils that were available in boom times and bust had been spread out among nations rich and poor and citizens rich and poor a little more equally, that concept might still have
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Claude Monet Camille on the Beach at Trouville 1870 • Russia Seeks To ‘Feed The Whole Planet’ – PM (RT) • Markets Are Going Haywire, Sudden Moves Are Here To Stay (CNBC) • Did The Market Miss Powell’s Real Message? (Roberts) • Fed’s QE Unwind Reaches $374 Billion (WS) • The Fed Finally Broke Something (Muir) • Oil Drops As OPEC Makes Supply Cut Dependent On Russia (CNBC) • Bitcoin Plunges 10% As December Rout Continues (CNBC) •
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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
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