Pablo Picasso Dora Maar 1937 • A Global Recession May Be Coming A Lot Sooner Than Anyone Thought (Henrich) • Why Negative Rates Will Devastate The World (ZH) • US National Debt Spiked $363 billion in 2 Weeks, $1 Trillion in 12 Months (WS) • UK Parliament Cannot Stop Brexit, Johnson To Tell Macron And Merkel (R.) • Leaked Docs : UK Faces Food, Fuel And Drugs Shortages In No-Deal Brexit (R.) • Jeremy Corbyn Has Called the Extreme
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Felix Vallotton Verdun 1917 It’s been a few days since I did anything but my news aggregator, and that’s not so strange, since so much of it ‘encircled’ Jeffrey Epstein. Now that he’s supposedly died, though we have no proof of that, from an ‘apparent suicide’, there are other topics as well that we can turn to. But let’s start with Epstein just for good measure. We still don’t have an autopsy report, though New York City Chief Medical
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Henri Matisse The terrace, St. Tropez 1904 • US Yield Curve Inversion Highlights Recession Fears, Fed Dilemma (R.) • China: Paper Tiger (Jim Rickards) • Trade Wars and the Over-Valued Dollar (Hill) • Trump Ties China Trade Deal To ‘Humane’ Hong Kong Resolution (R.) • Autopsy Finds Jeffrey Epstein Had Several Broken Neck Bones (NYPost) • Jeffrey Epstein’s Body Claimed By Unidentified ‘Associate’ (NBC) • CEO Scott Borgerson Denies He’s Dating Epstein Pal Ghislaine Maxwell (NYPost) • UK Labour
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Samuel Peploe Paris-plage 1907 • Jeffrey Epstein’s Trail Of Bankruptcy And Ruined Lives (WaPo) • Jeffrey Epstein Kept “Meticulously Detailed” Secret Diaries (Mirror) • New York Coroner ‘Confident’ Epstein’s Death Was Suicide (R.) • Lawyers Say Epstein Victims To Sue Financier’s Estate This Week (R.) • Hong Kong Airport Cancels All Outgoing Flights Over Protests (BBC) • Hong Kong Protests: Brutal Undercover Police Tactics Spark Outcry (G.) • Britons Have Spent £4bn Stockpiling Goods In Case Of No-Deal Brexit
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Pablo Picasso Man with straw hat and ice cream cone 1938 • JPMorgan: The Fed Will Need To Restart QE Soon • How Jeffrey Epstein Got His Hooks Into Les Wexner (William D. Cohan) • These Are The Dying Days Of A Rancid Old Order (Hutton) • The Very Idea Of A United Kingdom Is Being Torn Apart By Toxic Nationalism (G.) • Cross-Party Schemes Drawn Up To Prevent A Johnson No-Deal Brexit (O.) • No 10 Cancels Staff
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Pablo Picasso Man with ice cream cone 1938 My first thought after reading about Jeffrey Epstein’s so-called suicide is: let it go, watch a movie instead, or go out to dinner. But a suicide of someone under suicide watch is just too much. And then I understand NBC -oh wait, and Reuters too- said he wasn’t even on suicide watch anymore. A guy who allegedly tried to kill himself two weeks ago. But of course. Why should he be?
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Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001 The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unsealed a batch of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case today, as announced recently. Actually, it’s a case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s madam and main procurer of little girls. Giuffre bought the case after Maxwell accused her of lying about the whole thing. There’s still much more of this to come, and given the VIP
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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, cool,
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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.) • Deal
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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 Market
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