Paul Klee Fire at Full Moon 1933 • ‘Bobby Three Sticks’ Mueller to Probe Russia-Trump imbroglio (R.) • Trump To Announce $350bn Saudi Arabia Arms Deal – One Of Largest Ever (Ind.) • America’s Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows (Whitehead) • Investors Supercharge Bet Amazon Will Destroy US Retail (BBG) • Fed’s Kashkari Says Don’t Use Rate Hikes To Fight Bubbles (R.) • US Banks Tighten Auto Lending as More Borrowers Fall Into Default (BBG)
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Arrest of Gavrilo Princip, the man who shoot Franz Ferdinand June 28 1914 • Britain’s Labour Party Unveils ‘Radical’ Election Manifesto (AFP) • UK Media Trying Incredibly Hard To Keep Corbyn Out Of Number 10 (Can.) • The American Dystopia Didn’t Begin With Trump (MW) • Democratic Party Image Dips, GOP Ratings Stable (Gallup) • Chelsea Manning Set For Release After 7 Years In Prison (AP) • Hong Kong Rejects Asylum for Snowden Helpers (HRW) • The Everything Bubble:
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Fred Stein Chinatown 1944 • White House: Report Trump Shared Classified Info With Russians is ‘False’ (RT) • Trump’s Classified Disclosure Is Shocking But Legal (BBG) • The ‘Soft Coup’ of Russia-Gate (Robert Parry) • China’s Silk Road Vision: Cheap Funds, Heavy Debt, Growing Risk (R.) • China Banking Regulator Tightens Rules On WMPs, Flags More Curbs (R.) • New Zealand Housing Market Most at Risk of Bust – Goldman (BBG) • Snowden & Chomsky Lead Calls To Drop
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Fred Stein Ballfield NY 1946 • Global Property Bubble Is Ready To Pop (MF) • 3 Cities Push Canada To Another Record On House Prices (HPo) • Cyber Attack Aftershocks Disrupt Devices Across Asia on Monday (R.) • Lessons From Last Week’s Cyberattack (Microsoft) • The World Is Getting Hacked. Why Don’t We Do More to Stop It? (NYT) • Peak China: Chinese Data Misses Across The Board (ZH) • Why India Is Cool Towards China’s Belt And Road
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Henri Matisse Sorrow of the King 1952 • US Says Trump ‘Can’t Imagine Russia Pleased’ With North Korea Missile (R.) • Macron Takes Office As French President (AFP) • Tech Companies Have Become Monopolies, Drag On Economic Growth (AT) • ‘We Can’t Do Brexit With Half The Brexiteers Outside The Tent’ (G.) • Schaeuble Says Financial Transfers In Euro Zone Are Necessary (R.) • Ireland Is World’s Fourth-Largest Shadow Banking Hub (ITimes) • London Home Raffled For £3.75m Bought
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Fred Stein Subway Steps New York 1943 • Hackers Hit Dozens of Countries Exploiting Stolen NSA Tool (NYT) • UK Health Service, Targeted in Cyberattack, Ignored Warnings for Months (NYT) • Hurricane Bearing Down on the Casino (Stockman) • $500 Trillion in Derivatives “Remain an Important Asset Class” – NY Fed (WS) • The Great Misconception of a Return to “Normal” (Econimica) • US Nears $100 Billion Arms Deal For Saudi Arabia (R.) • Wells Fargo Bogus Accounts Balloon
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Robert Doisneau Le Baiser Blotto, Paris 1953 • Human Beings Are Not Efficiency Seeking Machines (Radford) • Stockman: Trump’s Tax Plan Never Had a Chance (DR) • Is China Really Deleveraging? (Balding) • China Stocks Are Tumbling Again. Unlike 2015, World Doesn’t Care (BBG) • China Has the World’s Biggest Productivity Problem (BBG) • No Evidence of Russian Intrusion in US Political System (Ron Paul) • Canada’s Home Capital Seeks New Funding Sources, Uncertain Of Future (BBG) • Open
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Paul Almasy Les Halles, Paris 1950 • Trump and Lavrov Meeting Round-Up (TASS) • $9 Trillion Question: What Happens When Central Banks Stop Buying Bonds? (WSJ) • Draghi Stays Calm on Stimulus as Dutch MPs Warn of Risks With Tulip (BBG) • It’s Not Just The VIX – Low Volatility Is Everywhere (R.) • Six Canadian Banks Cut by Moody’s on Consumers’ Debt Burden (BBG) • China Holds Giant Meeting On Spending Billions To Reshape The World (CNBC) •
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Ray K. Metzker Philadelphia 1962 You might have thought, and hoped, that recent events, such as the election of Trump as president of the US, or Brexit, or the rise of Marine Le Pen and other non-establishment forces in Europe, would, as a matter of -natural- course, have led to increased conversation and discussion between parties, entities, whose divisions were material in sparking these events. But the opposite has happened, and continues to happen at an ever faster and
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Dresden February 1945 • Trump Fires FBI Director Comey, Setting Off US Political Storm (R.) • Turning Gen. Flynn into Road Kill (Robert Parry) • NATO Chief Finds a New Friend in Trump (Spiegel) • Trump Approves Plan to Arm Syrian Kurds (NBC) • Turkey Hopes US Will End Support Of Syrian Kurdish YPG (R.) • Assange: ‘CIA Is Basically Useless, Incompetent’ (Exp.) • Stockman: There Is No Reason To Own Stocks At This Point In The Game (DR)
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