Pablo Picasso Bathers with a toy boat 1937 • The Giant Sucking Sound of Financial Repression (WS) • Dutch Bank ING Warns Against Further ECB Money Printing (R.) • Trump’s $300 Billion China Tariff Threat Sends Markets Into Tailspin (G.) • Rate Cut Odds Surge After Tariff Announcement (ZH) • US Tariffs Risk Reviving Chinese Zombies (R.) • The EU Has New People In Charge. It’s Not Good News For US Tech Firms (CNBC) • EU Governments Seek Name
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Piet Mondriaan Trees by the Gein at Moonrise 1908 • Jerome Powell Finds Another Way To Please Nobody (R.) • The Fed’s Massive Debt for Equity Swap (RIA) • Mario Draghi Lays Out Plan For A Dangerous Round Of Stimulus (Sinn) • PBOC Keeps Powder Dry After Fed Rate Cut, But More Easing Expected (R.) • Bank of England To Lean Against Market Rate Cut Bets As Brexit Nears (R.) • Capitalism Is Part Of Solution To Climate Crisis,
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Odilon Redon The winged man (The fallen angel) 1880 • Pound Worth Just 85 Euro Cents At UK Airports (Ind.) • Boris Johnson Refuses To Meet EU Leaders Unless They Scrap Backstop (G.) • EU Rejects Dominic Raab’s ‘Easier’ No-Deal Brexit Claim (G.) • Boris Johnson’s New Brexit Chief Wants To Scrap Workers’ Rights (Ind.) • Things to Come (Kunstler) • Fake Cash, Fake Accounting: China Regulators Halt 46 IPOs, Bond Offerings (WS) • US Firms See Little Clarity
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Pablo Picasso Massacre in Korea 1951 It’s been a long time since I wrote anything at all about nuclear energy. And even then I thought the whole discussion had been wrapped up and thrown away. But I guess it’s inevitable that as the climate change debate develops, there’d be parties seeking to revive the nukes ‘discussion’, because there’s so much potential profit in there. And then today I came upon this report, and a few interpretations of it, that
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Odilon Redon Fallen angel 1872 • A New US Oil Production Peak Looks Imminent (Robert Rapier) • China’s Wobbly Giants (Fortune) • Business Lobby Group CBI Says UK, EU Not Ready For No-Deal Brexit (BBC) • Johnson Told No-Deal Brexit Will Crush Domestic Policy Plans (G.) • More Than 4 Million In UK Are Trapped In Deep Poverty (G.) • Ratcliffe Tapped To Replace Coats As US Spy Chief (R.) • Work On Production Line Of Boeing 737 MAX
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Edward Hopper Sailing 1911 It’s a development that has long been evident in continental Europe, and that has now arrived on the shores of the US and UK. It is the somewhat slow but very certain dissolution of long-existing political parties, organizations and groups. That’s what I was seeing during the Robert Mueller clown horror show on Wednesday. Mueller was not just the Democratic Party’s last hope, he was their identity. He was the anti-Trump. Well, he no longer
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Pablo Picasso Dora Maar with green nails 1936 • What Mueller Was Trying to Hide (Strassel) • Barr And State AGs Discuss Big Tech Monopolies (ZH) • Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google For Campaign “Interference” (ZH) • Brussels Repels Boris Johnson’s Quest For New Brexit Deal (G.) • Don’t Call It A Coup, You’ll Spoil Boris Johnson’s Big Day Out (G.) • World Trade in Face of Tariffmageddon, Trade Wars & Manufacturing Slowdown (WS) • After Century of Chaos and
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Salvador Dali The knight of death 1934 Another article from Alexander Aston, from whom I published among other things the series Quantum, Dada and Jazz this past November. “Dulce et Decorum est” is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. The Latin title is taken from Ode 3.2 of the Roman poet Horace and means “it is sweet and fitting …”. It is followed there by “pro patria
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Piet Mondriaan Trafalgar Square 1939-43 • Trump Cheers As Michael Moore Blasts ‘Frail’ Mueller (AFP) • Donald Trump Vetoes Bills Prohibiting Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia (AP) • Nothing Matters: It’s Like the Whole Market Has Gone Nuts (WS) • Mnuchin Says Amazon ‘Destroyed’ US Retail Sector (R.) • Boeing Says It Could Halt Production Of 737 Max After Grounding (G.) • Jeffrey Epstein Found Injured In Jail Cell (R.) • Embattled Governor Of Puerto Rico Resigns After Protests
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Pablo Picasso Marie-Thérèse Walter 1937 • Mueller In Last-Minute Request For Aide To Be With Him During Testimony (NBC) • Questions for Mueller (Aaron Maté) • Robert Mueller, The ‘Magician Of Omission’ On Russia (Solomon) • Mueller Deputy Andrew Weissmann’s Offer To An Oligarch Could Hurt DOJ (Solomon) • The Clown Is Crowned As The Country Burns In Hell (G.) • Deutsche Bank’s Problem Derivatives Cloud Recovery (R.) • Deutsche Bank Flagged Epstein’s Overseas Transactions To US Watchdog (CNBC)
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