Vincent van Gogh Landscape with snow 1888 • World’s Wealthiest Became $1 Trillion Richer in 2017 (BBG) • The Rich Are Getting So Much Richer So Fast Their Spending Can’t Keep Up (CNN) • Germany – A Most Dangerous And Ridiculous Nation (Bilbo) • Britons Borrow An Average £452 Each On Credit Cards At Christmas (G.) • Bitcoin’s Rally Has Taken A Pause (BBG) • Case-Shiller 20-Home Price Index Just Shy Of 2006 Bubble Peak (Mish) • China Bets
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Edward Hopper Christmas card 1928 • Shale Gas Fuels 40% Increase In Funding For Plastics Production (G.) • Bitcoin Could Crash Financial Markets Because Of Massive Borrowing (MW) • Was Coinbase’s Bitcoin Cash Rollout A Designed Hit? (Luongo) • Japan PM Abe Urges Firms To Raise Wages By 3% Or More (R.) • Japan’s Household Spending Jumps But BOJ Seen Keeping Stimulus (R.) • Shanghai Sets Population At 25 Million To Avoid ‘Big City Disease’ (G./R.) • Europe Banks
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Allegory of the Planets and Continents 1752 • Christmas Sounds A Clanging Chime Of Doom (Stewart Lee) • Cryptocurrencies Resume Selloff as Recovery Fizzles (BBG) • Once The Cryptocurrency Bubble Bursts, There May Be Real Innovation (CNBC) • China Needs Detroit-Style Bankruptcy – Central Bank Official (R.) • China Tightens Overseas Investment To Reduce Risks (F.) • China Likely To Set M2 Money Growth Target At Record Low Next Year (R.) • New York’s Vanishing Shops
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Walter Hege Caryatid overlooking the city of Athens 1930 Christmas is the time when the western world makes a doomed attempt to remember a story whose meaning it has long forgotten, and still claim the story as its own every single time, every single year, claim it as its foundation, the foundation of the principles that guide its societies, its politics and its religion. Western countries, whether they’re predominantly Catholic or Protestant, label themselves Christian, after Jesus Christ, a
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Jules Bastien-LePage The annunciation to the shepherds 1875 • Yes, Virginia, There Is A ‘Santa Rally’ (Roberts) • Homelessness In England Rises By 75% Among Vulnerable Groups Since 2010 (G.) • Ten Years In, Nobody Has Come Up With A Use For Blockchain (Hackernoon) • Varoufakis: Bitcoin is The Perfect Bubble, Blockchain A Great Solution (Wired) • Japan Births Plunge To Lowest Level Ever Recorded (ZH) • China Raging Against the Dying of the Light (Hamilton) • US Tax
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Ansel Adams Boulder Dam 1941 • Bitcoin Briefly Plunges As Low As $10,400, Down 47%, In Volatile Trading (CNBC) • 2017 Year In Review (David Collum) • 2017 Year in Review (Jim Kunstler) • Foreign Cash Driving Top-End House Prices In Vancouver And Toronto (R.) • Canadian Housing Affordability Hits 27 Year Low (Saretsky) • Saudi Government Wants $6 Billion For al-Waleed’s Freedom (ZH) • What’s Going On With Cars? (Gaines) • Greek Pensioners May Face Further Cuts In
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Bill Watterson is God • He Died For Our Debts, Not Our Sins – Michael Hudson (Ren.) • Bitcoin Tumbles Below $13,000, Down Almost 40% From Record Peak (BBG) • Crypto Carnage Continues, Bitcoin Falls Back To $13,000 Handle (ZH) • Gold Only Safe Asset Left – David Stockman (USAW) • What Will the Tax Law Do to Over-Indebted Corporate America? (WS) • Subprime Auto Defaults Are Soaring, and Private Equity Has No Way Out (BBG) • The Ghost
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Claude Monet Houses of Parliament (Sun Breaking through the Fog) 1904 • Trump Plans Tax Bill Signing on January 3 Due to Technical Issue (BBG) • Why Wall Street Is Furious At The Trump Tax Plan (ZH) • Peak Valuations and Market Corrections (Rosso) • Silicon Valley Homes Going For Nearly $2 Million Over Asking Price (ZH) • Bitcoin Is Biggest Bubble Of Them All, And It’s The Fed’s Fault – Ron Paul (CNBC) • Uber Loses EU Court
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Claude Monet Houses of Parliament, Sunset 1904 • Bitcoin Plunges Over $2,500, Bounces Back Somewhat, Bitcoin Cash Surges (MW) • Coinbase Enables -Then Disables- Bitcoin Cash Trading: Insider Trading? (BI) • From Bitcoin To Hashgraph: The Crypto Revolution (Mike Maloney) • Is It 1999? 2007? Or Both? (Roberts) • China Is Having Second Thoughts About Cracking Down On Ballooning Debt (CNBC) • EU Commission May Launch Moves To Punish Poland Over Legal Reforms (R.) • Facebook’s New Nemesis Is
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Edwin Rosskam Store in alley-dwelling section of Washington, DC 1941 • China’s Growth Story… Don’t Look For A Happy Ending! (Hamilton) • One Of The Co-Founders Of Bitcoin.com Has Sold All Of His Bitcoin (BI) • Germany Backs French-Led Push for Global Bitcoin Regulation (BBG) • The EU’s Top Court Will Decide Whether Or Not Uber Is A Taxi Company (BBG) • UK Cannot Have A Special Brexit Deal For The City – EU (G.) • Bad Moon: (Trouble)
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