Paul Gauguin When are you getting married? 1892 It wasn’t really the plan to make this a series, but it seems to have turned into one. Part 1 is here: The Fed Detests Free Markets. Part 3 will follow soon. And yeah, I did think perhaps I should have called this one “End The Fed” Is No Longer Enough. Because that’s the idea here. But what’s in a name? Okay, let’s talk a bit more about
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Arthur Rothstein President Roosevelt tours drought area, near Bismarck, North Dakota Aug 1936 • Mueller Report’s Resurgence Gives Democrats New Dilemma On Impeachment (CNN) • Democrats Offering Passion Over Proof In Trump Impeachment (Turley) • Pelosi Pursues Articles Of Impeachment Against Trump (R.) • Ukraine Fires Prosecutor Investigating Burisma And Hunter Biden (CDMedia) • Fed Goes Hog-Wild with T-Bills, But Repos Drop and MBS Shrink by $22 Bn (WS) • Filmmakers Sue To Shield Visitors To US From Social
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Pablo Picasso Couple on a bench 1943 No no no, I want to do something else, but they won’t let me. There are just too many assumptions, opinions, interpretations and hearsay that linger on in what I see, and I can’t let that just go now that we’ve come so far. Nancy Pelosi just now: The California congresswoman told Thursday morning’s news conference: “The facts are uncontested. The president abused his power for his own political benefit at the
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Arthur Rothstein Interior of migratory fruit worker’s tent, Yakima, Washington Jul 1936 • The Market Will Need The Fed Again In 2020 (Axios) • The Repo Market Is Broken And Fed Injections Are Not A Lasting Solution (MW) • Is Something Broken? Quants Running “Scared” As Nothing Makes Sense (ZH) • Legal Experts Called By Democrats Say Trump’s Actions Are Impeachable (R.) • Gaetz Grills Impeachment Witnesses Over Democratic Donations (Fox) • Judiciary Committee Member: Unfair, Politically Biased Ordeal
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Vincent van Gogh Vase with honesty 1884-85 There are things you just cannot do. Partisanship, even the semblance of it, when discussing the US Constitution, is certainly one of them. But there we go: in Jerry Nadler’s Judiciary Committee hearings starting today, the Democrats get to pick 3 Constitutional experts, vs just one for the Republicans. There is no bigger no-no. This is not about whether Trump has tried to bribe Ukraine president Zelensky, something the latter has denied
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Arthur Rothstein Oregon or Bust, family fleeing South Dakota drought Jul 1936 • ‘Rumblings’ From Democrats On Censuring Trump Instead Of Impeachment (Hill) • Democrats Accuse Trump Of Abusing Power, Obstructing Impeachment Probe (R.) • Trump Unloads On ‘Maniac’ Adam Schiff: ‘He’s A Deranged Human Being’ (Fox) • Nunes Sues CNN Over ‘Demonstrably False’ Ukraine Report (York) • Durham Needs to Bring Indictments (Farrell) • Trump Says Barr Was Misquoted Regarding Horowitz (SAC) • Trump Was Right Before He
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Arthur Rothstein Texas Panhandle Dust Bowl Mar 1936 • There Is No More Accurate Way To Describe All That Than As A Coup (Kunstler) • Republicans Issue 123-Page Defense Of Trump (G.) • Barr Disputes Major Horowitz Finding Based On Durham, CIA Evidence (ZH) • Leaked NHS Papers ‘Put Online By Posters Using Russian Methods’ (G.) • As Trump Heads To London For NATO Summit, Warnings On British Election (R.) • Japan Preparing $120-$230 Billion Stimulus Package As Recession
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Russell Lee Migrant family in trailer home near Edinburg, Texas Feb 1939 • White House Says It Will Not Participate In Wednesday Impeachment Hearing (R.) • Political Affiliation Bias: We’re Embracing It Fervently (RT) • Could America Survive a Truth Commission? (CHS) • Why a Second American Revolution Is Necessary for the Entire World (Zuesse) • US Digs Deeper Into Deutsche Role In Danske Money Laundering Scandal (R.) • Albert Edwards Is Watching To Decide When The US Becomes
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Arthur Rothstein Family leaving South Dakota drought for Oregon Jul 1936 • Fastest-Growing Debt Category In US Not Student Loans Or Credit Cards (CNBC) • Automakers Offer Record Incentives As Trillion Dollar Auto Bubble Bursts (ZH) • The Fed’s Answer to the Ghastly Monster of its Creation (EP) • Germany Closes All Nuclear Plants, Must Bury Waste For 1 Million Years (CNN) • Spanish Judge To Question Assange Over Ecuador Embassy Spying Claims (El Pais) • ‘We’re Working For
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Dorothea Lange Hoe culture in the South. Poor white, North Carolina July 1936 • China Shouldn’t Risk West’s Large Monetary Easing Of Last Decade – PBOC (SCMP) • EU Watchdog Tells Banks To Get A Grip On Costs, Merge Or Close (R.) • But US “Energy Independence” is More Complicated (WS) • Black Friday Is Dying (ZH) • Democrats Have A Better Choice Than Impeachment (CNN) • Adam Schiff’s Goat Rodeo (Jim Kunstler) • Telling The Truth Becomes A
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