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Debt Rattle February 19 2020

Feb 192020

February 19, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:33 am Finance Tagged with: Bernie, Blagojevich, Boeing, cruise ship, Diamond Princess, elderly, MSNBC, Parthenon, politics, quarantine, religion, Russia, SARS, Trump 22 Responses »

Arthur Siegel Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Liberty ship construction. Welding on a hatch assembly at night. 1943 • Elderly Guests Leave First As Diamond Princess Quarantine Ends In Japan (SCMP) • Japan Releases First 500 ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers (ZH) • Coronavirus Up To 20 Times More Likely Than Sars To Bind To Human Cells (SCMP) • Russia To Ban Entry Of Chinese Nationals To Halt Virus (AP) • Foreign Pilots At Chinese Airlines Return Home On Unpaid Leave (R.)

Debt Rattle February 18 2020

Feb 182020

February 18, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:11 am Finance Tagged with: Apple, Assange, Bezos, coronavirus, Covid19, cruise ship, quarantine, Twitter, whistleblower, Wikileaks, Wuhan 18 Responses »

Jack Delano Entrance to colored drivers’ lunchroom at truck service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue) 1940 • 338 Americans Flown Home From Cruise Ship, Including 14 With Coronavirus (R.) • US Breaks Cruise Ship Quarantine (ZH) • Virus Kills Chinese Film Director and Family in Wuhan (Chow) • Disease Modelers See The Future Of COVID-19 (STAT) • China Faces Back To Work Concerns As Firms Report Coronavirus Infections (SCMP) • Apple Unlikely To Meet Revenue Guidance Due

Debt Rattle February 17 2020

Feb 172020

February 17, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:36 am Finance Tagged with: Bayer, Bill Barr, Cambodia, cruise ship, degrowth, evacuation, GDP, Japan, Monsanto, quarantine, scramble, Taiwan, Tesla, tweets, wildlife 28 Responses »

Jack Delano Discarded oil cans at truck service station on U.S. 1, New York Avenue, Washington, DC 1940 • Japan Braces For Hundreds More Cases Onboard Cruise Ship (G.) • Taiwan Confirms First Coronavirus Death On Island, Cases At 20 (R.) • Pay Attention To Shanghai, Beijing, Japan Infection Rates (F.) • Japan’s Economy Shrinks At Fastest Rate Since 2014 (BBC) • Coronavirus Cases Rise Again In China, Recession Looms In Japan, Singapore (R.) • Americans Disembark From Virus-Hit

Debt Rattle February 16 2020

Feb 162020

February 16, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:54 am Finance Tagged with: Bloomberg, Cambodia, campaign spending, coronavirus, cruise ship, HillBerg, Malaysia, McCabe, quarantine, reinfection 19 Responses »

John Collier Trucks on highway en route to Utica, New York 1941 • Chinese Doctors Say Wuhan Coronavirus Reinfection Even Deadlier (ZH) • 70 More Infections On Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Bring Total To 355 (SCMP) • Cruise Passengers Face 14 More Days In Quarantine On Return To Hong Kong (SCMP) • Quarantined Cruise Ship Passenger Speaks Out Against US Evacuation Plan (Fox) • American From Cruise Ship Docked In Cambodia Tests Positive In Malaysia For Coronavirus (R.) •

Debt Rattle February 15 2020

Feb 152020

February 15, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:43 am Finance Tagged with: Bill Barr, Boeing, coronavirus, Covid19, DOJ, Egypt, FBI, Flynn, France, gold sale, McCabe, RogerStone, Sidney Powell, Varoufakis, Xi 26 Responses »

Harris & Ewing Gettysburg 50th reunion: Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans 1913 • Massive Medical Response As China Death Toll Reaches 1,526 (SCMP) • Beijing To Quarantine All Arrivals As Economic Life Struggles To Pick Up (R.) • Xi Puts On Brave Face, Vows To Deliver Economic Goals Amid Coronavirus (SCMP) • Egypt Confirms Coronavirus Case, The First In Africa (AlJ) • Chinese Medical Staff Pay ‘Too High A Price’ In Battle To Curb

Debt Rattle February 14 2020

Feb 142020

February 14, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:58 am Finance Tagged with: Bill Barr, Bloomberg, coronavirus, Covid19, DOJ, Fed, Foxconn, gobshite, Roger Stone, Senate, Singapore, Trump, WHO 24 Responses »

Alfred Palmer Halftrack scout car brought up to Army standards of smartness. White Motor Company, Cleveland Dec 1941 • Beijing Lowers Coronavirus Deaths By 108 Due To “Double Counting” (ZH) • Singapore’s Biggest Daily Jump In New Coronavirus Cases Takes Tally To 58 (R.) • Foxconn Denies Reuters Reports On Factory Restart In China (ZH) • WHO Advisor Says Coronavirus May Infect Over 5 Billion People (ZH) • Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution Despite Trump’s Opposition (CNN) •

Debt Rattle February 13 2020

Feb 132020

February 13, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:28 pm Finance Tagged with: Assange, Boeing, Corbyn, diagnostic, Epstein, Hubei, Mueller, Nunes, Roger Stone, Scotland, Wuhan 11 Responses »

DPC Wanted: 500 men to eat frankfurters (click to see sign), Bowery, Rockaway, NY 1905 • Hubei’s Coronavirus Cases Rise 10-Fold After Change In Diagnostic Criteria (SCMP) • COVID-19 Coronavirus Cases (Worldometer) • Beijing Battles ‘Crisis Of Chernobyl Proportions’ In Virus Outbreak (SCMP) • Roger Stone Sentencing Drama Roils Capitol Hill (Pol.) • Yiannopoulos to Gift Royalties From Roger Stone Book to His Defense Fund (GP) • Devin Nunes: Examples Of ‘What Mueller Team Was Really Doing’ Coming Soon

China Cedes Virus Control

Feb 132020

February 13, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:28 am Finance Tagged with: CCP, coronavirus, Covid19, cruise ship, diagnostics, epidemic, Hubei, mortality rate, pandemic, quarantine, Wuhan 12 Responses »

Saul Leiter 463 1956 • Hubei’s Coronavirus Cases Rise 10-Fold After Change In Diagnostic Criteria (SCMP) • COVID-19 Coronavirus Cases (Worldometer) • Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Mortality Rate (Worldometer) • 44 More Cases On Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Anchored Off Japan (SCMP) • WHO Team Arrives In China As Wuhan Coronavirus Deaths Top SARS (CNN) • Beijing’s Purge Over Virus Takes Down Top Communist Party Officials In Hubei (SCMP) • Botched Wuhan Quarantine Left Dead Bodies In The Street (ZH)

Debt Rattle February 12 2020

Feb 122020

February 12, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:44 am Finance Tagged with: Bianca, classicism, coronavirus, Covid19, cruise ship, job openings, lithium, OPCW, pensions, quadratic, Roger Stone, subprime, sustainable, Trump, Wuhan 18 Responses »

Dorothea Lange Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store. Person County, North Carolina 1939 • China Reports 97 New Deaths, 2,059 New Cases Confirmed (SCMP) • Coronavirus Cases Fall, Experts Disagree Over Whether Peak Is Near (R.) • Japan Cruise Ship Virus Cases Jump To 175 (R.) • At Least 500 Wuhan Medical Staff Infected With Coronavirus (SCMP) • China’s Banks Face $6 Trillion Coronavirus Cataclysm (ZH) • China Home Sales Crash In First Week Of February ‘Worse

Debt Rattle February 11 2020

Feb 112020

February 11, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:56 pm Finance Tagged with: Aboriginees, aliens, Bernie, Chen Qiushi, closures, coronavirus, death toll, Democrats, Growth, incubation, oil prices, WHO, Wuhan, Xi Jinping 24 Responses »

Mathew Brady Grand Review of the Army. Units of XX Army Corps, Army of Georgia, Pennsylvania Ave. near the Treasury, Washington, DC. May 24 1865 • 3 Wuhan Officials Summoned To Explain Failings (SCMP) • China Gets Back To Work As Death Toll Reaches 1,018 (SCMP) • China Firms Cut Staff On Virus Outbreak As Xi Vows No Large-Scale Layoffs (R.) • Senior Chinese Officials ‘Removed’ As Death Toll Hits 1,000 (BBC) • Outspoken Academic Blames Xi Jinping For

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