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Debt Rattle August 4 2020

Aug 042020

August 4, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:15 am Finance Tagged with: Biden, coronavirus, coup, Covid19, evictions, HCQ, mail-in ballots, MMT, Portland, psychiatric disorders, RussiaRussia, travel, Trump, Vance, VP 21 Responses »

Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, Brussels 1873 • Yale Doctor Battles CNN Anchor Over Effectiveness Of HCQ (Fox) • COVID19 Survivors Show Increased Rate Of Psychiatric Disorders (G.) • New Heart Problems Seen In Recovered COVID-19 Patients (R.) • Italy Survey Suggests Coronavirus 6x More Prevalent Than Official Data (R.) • Mutation May Have Made Virus More Vulnerable To Vaccines (R.) • Less Than Third Of Canadians Willing To Travel Without COVID19 Vaccine (CBC) • Manhattan DA Probing Trump

Debt Rattle August 3 2020

Aug 032020

August 3, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:48 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Biden, Big Tech, buybacks, coronavirus, Covid19, debate, Fed, MMT, populism, relief bill, Thomas Frank, Tiktok, Trump 20 Responses »

W. Eugene Smith Orson Welles 1941 • Supporters Urge Joe Biden Not to Debate Trump (NW) • Kansas Should Go F— Itself (Matt Taibbi) • How Congress Maintains Endless War (Zuesse) • White House Says Not Optimistic On Near-Term Deal For COVID Relief Bill (R.) • The Fed Is Planning To Send Money Directly To Americans In Next Crisis (ZH) • Fed’s Kashkari Suggests 4-6 Week Shutdown (R.) • Tech Stock Buybacks Are Surging (ZH) • America’s Monopoly Problem

Debt Rattle August 2 2020

Aug 022020

August 2, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:52 am Finance Tagged with: ACE2, Afghan War logs, Assange, Bill Binney, brain fog, coin shortage, coronavirus, Covid19, heart damage, Obama, obesity, Trump 19 Responses »

London 1877 • It’s The Healthcare System, Stupid (Thomas Frank) • ‘Brain Fog’ To Heart Damage, COVID19’s Lingering Problems (AAAS) • The Protein Expression Profile Of ACE2 In Human Tissues (EMBO) span> • Red Sox Ace Rodríguez Out For Season With COVID-Related Heart Ailment (G.) • Obese People Are Twice As Likely To Die From COVID (ZH) • America’s Coin Shortage Is Getting Worse (ZH) • Obama Issues Private Warning About Trump Voters To Top Democratic Donors (LZ) •

Debt Rattle August 1 2020

Aug 012020

August 1, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:11 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, campus, coronavirus, Covid19, eurozone, Ghislaine, housing, pub, Russiagate, shorts, Susan RIce, Taleb, Tiktok, USD, YMCA 22 Responses »

Inge Morath Street Corner at World’s End London 1954 • 100s Of Georgia Campers Infected With Corona At YMCA Camp In Days – CDC (WSB) • College Students Who Get Tested Every Two Days Can Return To Campus Safely (F.) • Visiting People At Home Banned In Parts Of Northern England (BBC) • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Pandemic (Sav) • Trump Says Will Ban TikTok Through Executive Action As Soon As Saturday (CNBC) • US Dollar Net Shorts

Debt Rattle July 31 2020

Jul 312020

July 31, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:08 am Finance Tagged with: Biden, children, China, coronavirus, Covid19, Flynn, Japan, Kamala, Kodak, masks, Susan RIce, viral load 19 Responses »

Elliot Erwitt California 1955 • Young Children Carry Much Higher Viral Load Than Other Age Groups (SD) • Tokyo Could Declare Emergency If Situation Worsens (R.) • China Reports 127 New Coronavirus Cases, Highest Since March 5 (R.) • Netherlands Refuses To Mandate Mask Wearing In Public (ZH) • Australia To Make Facebook, Google Pay For News In World First (R.) • The Grifters, Chapter 1 – Kodak (Ben Hunt) • Trader Joe’s Won’t Change Packaging On International Food

Debt Rattle July 30 2020

Jul 302020

July 30, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:51 am Finance Tagged with: Ashley Judd, Assange, Bill Barr, coronavirus, corporate debt, Covid19, Donzinger, Fauci, Flynn, goggles, HCQ, heart damage, Purdue, vaccine, Weinstein 31 Responses »

Elliot Erwitt New York 1955 • Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Approval Imminent (R.) • 3/4 of Recovered Coronavirus Patients Have Heart Damage Months Later (People) • Brazil Hits Record Daily Coronavirus Cases, Fatalities (R.) • Fauci Recommends Eye Protection To Prevent Contracting Coronavirus (Axios) • Political Talks Stall In US On Next Round Of Coronavirus Spending (AlJ) • A $10 Trillion Corporate Debt Bomb Is Waiting to Explode the US Economy (NW) • China Needs ‘Explosive’ Buying To Meet US

Debt Rattle July 29 2020

Jul 292020

July 29, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:14 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Big Tech, Bill Barr, Congress, coronavirus, Covid19, dollar hegemony, Ghislaine, OPEC, treason, WHO 32 Responses »

Fresco from the Minoan Palace in Knossos, Crete, Greece. 16th century B C. • Coronavirus To Spread In One Big Wave and Won’t Go Away – WHO (RT) • WHO Says Keeping Borders Shut To Thwart COVID-19 Not “Sustainable” (CBS) • Six US States See Record COVID19 Deaths, Latinos Hit Hard In California (R.) • Hong Kong Warns City On Verge Of Large Coronavirus Outbreak (R.) • China’s Surging Crude Imports Mask Weakness In The Rest Of Asia (R.)

Debt Rattle July 28 2020

Jul 282020

July 28, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:17 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Bayer, Bill Barr, China, coronavirus, Covid19, eviction, Stelter, vaccine, violence 9 Responses »

Dorothea Lange Migrant cotton picker’s children, live in government tent, Shafter Camp, CA 1938 • Barr To Come Out Swinging In House Testimony (Solomon) • How Did Russia Get A Possible COVID19 Vaccine So Fast? (RT) • China Reports 68 New Coronavirus Cases, Including Two In Beijing (R.) • Mike Rowe Explains That Reality Is Going To Win With The Wuhan Virus (AT) • How The Eviction Crisis Across The US Will Look (CNBC) • The Insane Leading the

Debt Rattle July 27 2020

Jul 272020

July 27, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:09 am Finance Tagged with: Biden, bubble, coronavirus, Covid19, evacuation, eviction, Fat Boris, MSM, Obama, obesity, Portland, stimulus 7 Responses »

Opening of Golden Gate Bridge May 27 1937 • $1,200 Stimulus Check, Eviction Moratorium, and Reduced Unemployment Aid (ZH) • Gold Soars To All-Time High As Dollar Dive Boosts Safety Rush (R.) • Lockdown Has Made The Nation Happier – Study (Ind.) • Vietnam Orders Evacuation Of 80,000 People After Three Test Positive (Ind.) • Spain’s COVID19 Death Toll Could Be 60% Higher Than Reported – El Pais (RT) • The $52 Trillion Bubble That Has “Hijacked China’s Economy”

What? Default? Where? Dollar?

Jul 262020

July 26, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 6:27 pm Finance Tagged with: China, collapse, default, demise, dollar, EU, euro, FX reserves, gold, international trade, reserve currency, SDR, US, yuan 14 Responses »

Elaine de Kooning Fairfield Porter #1 1954 It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that the first half of 2020 has brought, among many other things, renewed calls for the demise of the US dollar. It’s been pretty much a non-stop call for over a decade now, and longer. But this time, like all previous ones, I’m thinking: I don’t see it. I guess my first question is always: please explain why the dollar would collapse before

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