Pablo Picasso Les femmes d’Alger 1955 • Trump Set To Make First Moves At Completely Revamping The Fed (CNBC) • Trump’s ‘Been Clear To Me’ To Try To Rebuild Russia Ties: Tillerson (R.) • Contractor Charged With Leaking Document About US Election Hacking (R.) • How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner (ErrataS) • China’s Biggest Bank Is Wall Street’s Go-To Shadow Lender (BBG) • One Belt, One Road, and One Debt Hangover (Rickards) • Qatar Stocks Tumble 7% As
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Banksy Girl with a balloon 2002/2017 • Gulf Countries Cut Ties With Qatar, Oil Price Jumps (CNBC/R.) • Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, & Bahrain Cut Ties, Shut Borders With Qatar (ZH) • Theresa May Urged Not To Suppress Report Into Funding Of Jihadi Groups (G.) • Top Cameron Aide: Theresa May ‘Responsible’ For London Terror Attack (BI) • Against Terror, Is London Pride Enough? (NYT) • Nearly 10 Million Britons Are In Insecure Work (G.) • Banksy Offers Free
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Eugène Delacroix Les femmes d’Alger 1834 • Theresa May Suppresses Release Of Report On Who Funds Terrorism In UK (Ind.) • ‘Sensitive’ UK Terror Funding Inquiry May Never Be Published (G.) • British PM May’s Election Gamble In Doubt As Poll Lead Falls To One Point (R.) • What Young People Think About This Election • The Biggest Real Estate Bubble Of All Time Just Did The Impossible (ZH) • Australia’s Record-Breaking Run Teeters On Edge With ‘Paltry’ Growth
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Ervin Marto Paris 1950 • Liar Liar: The Protest Song Is Back (CaptainSKA) • The Magic Money Tree Exists (MMM) • The Basics of Modern Money (MMB) • In The Last 10 Years US Economy Grew At Same Rate As In The 1930s (Snyder) • The UK Could Teach The Eurozone About Successful Monetary Unions (CityAM) • Huge Miss: Only 138K US Jobs Added In May; April Revised Much Lower (ZH) • US Full-Time Jobs Tumble By 367,000, Biggest
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Bernard Pascucci Dancers on the Roof of the Opéra Garnier, Paris 1965 • President Trump Announces US Withdrawal From The Paris Climate Accord (ZH) • Conservatives’ Donors Gave 10 Times As Much As Labour’s Last Week (G.) • The Myths About Money That British Voters Should Reject (Chang) • ‘Ghost Collateral’ Haunts China’s Debt-Laden Banking System (R.) • BOJ’s Balance Sheet Almost As Big As Japanese Economy (Nikkei) • 25-30% Of US Shopping Malls To Close In The Next
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Ted Russell James Baldwin and Bob Dylan 1963 • America Is Racing Toward Peak Polarization (NYMag) • US Middle Class Is Now The Company Store Class (Michael Hudson) • Theresa May’s Lead Slashed To Record Low Of Three Points In New Poll (Ind.) • Does Theresa May Pass The Turing Test? (PH) • Terror In Britain: What Did The Prime Minister Know? (John Pilger) • UK Policymakers Face A Dilemma Over Public’s Slowing Demand For Credit (G.) • UK
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Johannes Vermeer Woman in Blue Reading a Letter 1662-3 • China Is The Greatest Financial Bubble in History (Rickards) • In Watershed Event, Europe Unveils Plan To Securitize Sovereign Debt (ZH) • EU Executive To Say Eurozone May Need Treasury, Minister, Budget (R.) • Sterling Dips After Poll Suggests Hung UK Parliament (BBC) • Theresa May Asks Voters To Imagine Jeremy Corbyn ‘Naked And Alone’ (M.) • US Starts Shipping Weapons To Syrian Kurds (ZH) • The Plot To
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Inge Morath Paris 1954 • Australia Hedge Fund Returns Cash To Clients Citing Looming Calamity (SMH) • Hong Kong Throngs of Thousands Defy Bid to Cool Home Market (BBG) • Saudi Foreign Reserves Dip Below $500 Billion in April (BBG)
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Hokusai Views of Mount Fuji: Ejiri in Suruga Province 1831 • Europe “Must Take Its Fate Into Its Own Hands” – Angela Merkel (AFP) • Stocks Won’t Crash Spectacularly but May Zigzag Lower (WS) • The Great Aussie Recession-Free Run Is Looking Shaky – Again (BBG) • Australia Retail Sector Shudders (Aus.) • US Homeowners Are Again Pocketing Cash as They Refinance Properties (WSJ) • The Guardian Mourns Corbyn’s Polling Surge (Cook) • Tories Pledge New Law Over Domestic
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Fred Stein Little Italy New York 1943 • Trump Tells ‘Confidants’ US Will Leave Paris Climate Deal (R.) • New Home Prices Are Over 50% Higher In Canada Than The US (BD) • Low Volatility Is Market’s Most Significant Danger (BBG) • Jeremy Corbyn Within Striking Distance Of No. 10 (Mirror) • Fourth Turning’s Neil Howe: We Are In The 1930s, “Winter Is Coming” (Mauldin) • We’re Dealing With a New Type of War Lie (Swanson) • Private Mercenary
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