Bartolomeo Schedoni The Deposition (of Jesus’ body by St. Joseph of Arimathea) 1613 • The Art of (Cold) War (Claire Connelly) • Killing Diplomacy (Dmitry Orlov) • Russia’s EU Ambassador Says UK Lab Could Be Nerve Agent Source (BBC) • NATO Must Improve Defences Against ‘More Aggressive’ Russia – Stoltenberg (G.) • Goldilocks, R. I. P. – Part 3 (David Stockman) • UK Brexit Committee In Bitter Row Over Plan To Delay EU Withdrawal (Ind.) • French Language Eyes
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Jacobello Alberegno The Beast of the Apocalypse 1360-90 The Guardian ran an article yesterday by one of its editors, David Shariatmadari, that both proves and disproves its own theme at the same time: “An Information Apocalypse Is Coming”. Now, I don’t fancy the term apocalypse in a setting like this, it feels too much like going for a cheap thrill, but since he used it, why not. My first reaction to the headline, and the article, is: what do
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Times Square NYC ca. 1909 • Higher Interest Rates To Spell Private Debt Trouble in Many Countries (BBG) • The US Economy Is Not Really Growing (RIA) • US Gross National Debt Spikes $1.2 Trillion in 6 Months, Hits $21 Trillion (WS) • Russia Expels 23 British Diplomats In Retaliation (Ind.) • EU Ready To Hit Big US Tech Firms With 3% Turnover Tax (R.) • Goldilocks, R. I. P. – Part 2 (Stockman) • School Daze (Jim Kunstler)
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Pablo Picasso Women of Algiers (after Delacroix) 1955 • The British Government’s Russia Nerve Agent Claims Are Bullshit (Nafeez Ahmed) • UK Claims Questioned About Source Of Salisbury Novichok (G.) • Buying Stocks Now Is Betting On Buybacks (F.) • Has Europe Really Recovered From Its 2008 Financial Meltdown? (Steve Keen) • UK Household Debt Levels Close To 2008 Peak (Ind.) • UK Economy In Grip Of Most Feeble Recovery On Modern Record – IFS (Ind.) • More Than
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Vincent van Gogh Sprig of Flowering Almond in a Glass 1888 • One Of The Greatest Minds Ever To Live Dies Age 76 (Ind.) • Trump Unmasked 68 Years Of Washington Duplicity (Stockman) • What Secretary of State Tillerson’s Firing Means (Paul Craig Roberts) • New CIA Director Gina Haspel Once Ran A Torture Site (Qz) • Theresa May Plans For ‘Economic War’ With Vladimir Putin And His Allies (Ind.) • False Flags for Newbies (Dmitry Orlov) • Google
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Mayfair Building, Times Square NYC 1954 • Sea Change Is Underway in Money Markets for Banks, Investors (BBG) • The Real Reasons Trump Blocked Broadcom’s Qualcomm Takeover (CNBC) • Donald Trump’s Attack on German Prosperity (Spiegel) • Trump Pushes EU to Cut Tariffs as Bloc Vows to Resist ‘Bullies’ (BBG) • Trump’s Metal Tariffs ‘Like An Atomic Bomb’ For European Firms (CNBC) • Is The Dot.Com Bubble Back? (Roberts) • China Plans New Ministries, Merger Of Regulators In Massive
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Lewis Wickes Hine Labourer on connector, Empire State Building, New York 1930-31 • On The Bull Market’s Ninth Birthday (CNBC) • ‘No Response’ Yet From North Korea On Trump Talks (BBC) • Kim Jong Un Wants a Peace Treaty From Trump (BBG) • China Banking Crisis Warning Signal Still Flashing – BIS (BBG) • Don’t Count On Beijing To Resolve Fallout From Any Debt Blowup (CNBC) • Asia’s Big Developers ‘More Vulnerable’ to Shocks – BIS (BBG) • Japan
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James McNeill Whistler Nocturne Blue and Gold Southampton Water 1872 • $21 Trillion And Rising: Central Banks’ Leveraged Buyout of The World (ZH) • The $233 Trillion Dollar Dark Cloud of Global Debt (GT) • Trump Is Going For A Clean Reset in The West Wing (Vanity Fair) • Trump ‘Clarity’ on Tariff Conditions Not What EU Was Looking For (BBG) • China Ties Future to Xi as Congress Scraps President Term Limits (BBG) • Putin Says He ‘Couldn’t
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Pablo Picasso The Roaster 1938 • Trump Tariffs Cause Massive Outflows From US Stocks – BofAML (R.) • Trump-Kim Meeting Contingent On ‘Concrete Steps’ By North Korea (Ind.) • What’s Coming Will Be Much Worse Than 2008 (Phoenix) • 313k Jobs Added? Nice Try But It’s Fake News (IRD) • QE Unwind Is Too Slow, Says Fed Governor, Thus Launching First Trial Balloon (WS) • Forget About ‘Free Trade’ (CHS) • Europe’s Most-Leveraged Stocks Surge (BBG) • Cash May
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Broadway, New York 1954 • Trump’s Historic Bet on Kim Summit Shatters Decades of Orthodoxy (BBG) • Trump Sets Steel And Aluminum Tariffs; Canada, Mexico Exempted (R.) • There Will Be No Economic Boom – Part II (Roberts) • “Gary Cohn, We Hardly Knew Ya” (David Stockman) • The Risk Lurking In The US Mortgage Market (CNN) • The End of Cheap Debt Will Bring a Wave of – Green- Bankruptcies (Mises) • Tesla Chief Musk Says China Trade
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