M. C. Escher Corte, Corsica 1928 • Trump Orders New FBI Probe Into Kavanaugh Following Senate Request (Ind.) • The Return Of The Inquisition (Simon Black) • Fiscal Irresponsibility (Roberts) • Junk Bonds Set For Record Winning Streak, High Grade Worst Since 2008 (ZH) • Elon Musk Believed He Had Verbal Deal With Saudis To Take Tesla Private (WSJ) • Labour Claims Theresa May’s Government ‘The Most Divided Ever’ (Ind.) • Boris Johnson’s ‘Super Canada’ Alternative Brexit Plan Rubbished
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Pablo Picasso Carnival Bistro [Study] 1908 • Well, I Think We Found Our Supreme Court Justice Today… (F.) • BIS’s Claudio Borio Says the World Economy Is About to Get Very Sick (Auerback) • Italy Agrees High Public Spending Reforms In Potential Clash With EU (G.) • Irish Banks’ Loan Losses Hit €140 Billion In 10 Years After Crash (IT) • Janet Yellen Says It’s Time For “Alarm” As Loan Bubble Runs Amok (ZH) • Why Do Debt Crises
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M. C. Escher Symmetry Drawing 1948 • Kavanaugh Mayhem (ZH) • Argentina Gets Biggest Loan In IMF’s History At $57 Billion (G.) • The Next Financial Crisis Will Hit In 12-24 Months – Griffin (ZH) • Macron Rejects Trade Deals With Countries Outside Paris Climate Accord (Ind.) • For The First Time Ever, Jeremy Corbyn Looked Like A Prime Minister (Ind.) • UK Appoints Food Supplies Minister Amid Fears Of No-Deal Brexit (G.) • No-Deal Brexit ‘Would Stop British
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Pablo Picasso Five women 1907 • Europe, Russia And China Join Forces To Dodge Iran Sanctions (CNBC) • Europe Unveils “Special Purpose Vehicle” To Bypass SWIFT (ZH) • Fed Likely To Raise Rates, Possibly End ‘Accommodative’ Policy Era (R.) • Free-Riding Investors Set up Markets for a Major Collapse (Rickards) • Corbyn Vows To End ‘Greed-is-Good’ Capitalism In UK (G.) • Why Corbyn Is Promising A “Green Jobs Revolution” (NS) • Brexit Agreement Could Come In October – Merkel
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Salvador Dali Galatea of the Spheres 1952 Axios reporter Jonathan Swan “broke” the story yesterday morning that Rod Rosenstein was going to resign before he would be fired, and he was on his way to the White House for that. Just about every would-be journalist in the US followed suit with speculation and ‘updates’ by anonymous sources either close to the White House or to Rosenstein. Through the day it became clear that Swan’s entire story was pure speculation
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René Magritte Memory of a journey 1955 • Axios Issues Critical “Clarification” To Rosenstein Resignation Report (ZH) • Kavanaugh: “I’m Not Going Anywhere”… And I Was A Virgin In High School (ZH) • Going Full Porn (Kunstler) • China Says US Putting ‘Knife To Its Neck’, Hard To Proceed On Trade (R.) • US Judge Suggests He May Dismiss Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Against Trump (R.) • UK-EU Flights To Be Grounded In Case Of No-Deal Brexit (Ind.) • Labour
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M. C. Escher Circle limit III 1959 • BIS Warns Zombies Are Crippling Global Growth (ZH) • ‘Key Allies’ Want FBI Docs Blocked: Trump (AAP) • White House Denies Trump Executive Order On Facebook, Google, Twitter (Ind.) • Christine Blasey Ford Reaches Deal to Testify at Kavanaugh Hearing (NYT) • OPEC Predicts Massive Rise In Oil Production Over Next Five Years (G.) • Leading Tory Eurosceptics Unveil Rival Brexit Plans (Ind.) • Labour’s New Brexit Referendum Won’t Offer Option
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Pablo Picasso Swimming 1908 • Trump To Investigate Google, Facebook Under New Executive Order (ZH) • Theresa May Said To Be Preparing For Snap Election To Save Brexit (R.) • Labour To Trigger Early Election If May Defeated In Parliament (Ind.) • Crashing Out Of EU May Hasten Breakup Of UK – Ministers (G.) • Corbyn Will Back Fresh Referendum If Labour Conference Wants It (Ind.) • Kavanaugh Accuser Has No-One Left To Corroborate Her Story (ZH) • Pompeo
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René Magritte Memory of a voyage 1955 • Rosenstein Proposed Secretly Recording Trump, Invoking 25th Amendment (ZH) • NY Times, McCabe Give Trump Perfect Cover To Fire Rosenstein, Sessions (Hill) • Grassley Extends Deadline On Kavanaugh Accuser’s Decision To Testify (Pol.) • Ding Dong…. (Jim Kunstler) • Theresa May Demands European Leaders Show UK Respect (Ind.) • Legal Action To Revoke Article 50 Referred To European Court Of Justice (G.) • UK PM May Facing Ministerial Resignations Over Brexit
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M. C. Escher The Tower of Babel 1928 Two thirds of Americans get at least some of their news on social media. Google and Facebook receive well over 70% of US digital advertising revenues. The average daily time spent on social media is 2 hours. Just a few factoids that have at least one thing in common: nothing like them was around 10 years ago, let alone 20. And they depict a change, or set of changes, in our
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