Russell Lee Sharecropper mother teaching children in home, Transylvania, LA. 1939 • Trump To Be Barred From UK Parliament Over ‘Racism and Sexism’ (BBG) • Trump’s Wall Street Deregulation ‘The Last Thing We Need’ – Draghi (Ind.) • Meet The Men Who Could Topple Donald Trump (G.) • California Is Not ‘Out Of Control,’ Leaders Tell Trump (R.) • Our Part In The Darkness (Alameddine) • The New York Times Just Doesn’t Understand This Economics Stuff (Worstall) • The Fed’s
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Steve Schapiro Robert Kennedy US Presidential Campaign 1968 • Trump Travel Ban- What Happens Now (BBC) • Trump Faces Uphill Battle To Overcome Court’s Hold On Travel Ban (R.) • President Trump’s Major Asian Breakthrough (CNBC) • Believe It Or Not, Deluded Republicans Have Got It Right On Tax Reform (Chu) • Is America in a Bubble & Will America Ever Return to “Normal” (CH) • Trump Is No Fascist. He Is A Champion For The Forgotten Millions (G.)
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Hugo Simberg The Wounded Angel 1903 • US Appeals Court Denies Request To Restore Trump’s Immigration Ban (R.) • DHS Suspends Actions On Travel Ban; ‘Standard Policy’ Now In Effect (R.) • Trump Tells O’Reilly He ‘Respects’ Putin in Super Bowl Interview (Fox) • As Trump Weighs Thaw With Putin, EU Set to Renew Its Blacklist (BBG) • Goldman Throws Cold Water On Trump Agenda (CNBC) • Economists Say Action On Carbon Is Vital, Or Say Nothing At All
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Esther Bubley Boy who rides to school daily on Greyhound bus, Washington Court House, Ohio 1943 It’s been a while since the Automatic Earth featured an article from Energy Matters, the site run by our longtime friend Euan Mearns, Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Aberdeen, and his co-conspirator Roger Andrews, a British engineer/geophysicist, semi-retired in Mexico. But I read a piece by Roger yesterday that I like, because it allows me to rant against all the false
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Henri Cartier Bresson Paris 1952 • Judge Blocks Trump Travel Ban Nationwide (ZH) • Airlines Told To Allow Banned Travelers Into US After Judge’s Order (G.) • Trump’s Travel Ban Has Revoked 60,000 Visas For Now (R.) • If Americans Truly Cared About Muslims, They Would Stop Killing Them (BAR) • Iran To Name US Individuals Involved In ‘Helping And Founding’ Terrorists (ZH) • EU Flirts With Hypocrisy In Criticising Trump’s Refugee Ban (EUO) • America Is Shedding Its Whole
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Return of the Boating Party 1862 • Trump’s Economic Policy Makes Perfect Sense: Albert Edwards (CNBC) • Big Clash Looming (Kath.) • The IMF Should Get Out of Greece (Ashoka Mody) • Italians Are Outright Economic Losers in the Era of the Euro (BBG) • China Net 2016 Outflows At Record $725 Billion (R.) • Reality Vs. The “Recovery” Narrative (Mises) • Markets Are Experiencing Cognitive Dissonance (Rickards) • Scots to Vote on Tuesday on May’s Draft
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Pablo Picasso The Bull state VII 1945 • 200 Years of US Immigration Data Put Trump’s Ban Into Context (Stat) • Australia PM Turnbull Denies Trump ‘Hang Up’ (Sky) • Will Donald Trump Reverse The War On Cash? (IM) • Problems ‘Resolved’ For German Dual Citizens Under Trump’s Travel Ban (Loc.) • German Current Account Surplus To Hit Record, World’s Largest In 2016 (R.) • Switzerland’s Record Surplus Raises Questions Amid Trump Trade Agenda (WSJ) • Dutch Will Count All
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Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa 1819 Benoît Hamon won the run-off for the presidential nomination of the Socialist party in France last weekend. The party that still, lest we forget, runs the country; current president François Hollande is a Socialist, even if only in name, but he did win the previous election. Hamon ran on a platform of shortening the workweek from 35 to 32 hours, legalizing cannabis and ‘easing’ the country into a universal basic income
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William Henry Jackson North from Brink Wood, Pen Mar Park, Maryland 1906 • Trump Trade Chief Navarro Accuses Germany Of Abusing Euro For Own Gain (Tel.) • ECB Has An Inflation Problem … Called Germany (Pol.) • Japan Rejects Trump Accusation Of Devaluing Yen In Currency War (G.) • EU Chair Tusk Labels Trump A ‘Threat’ As Europeans Debate US Ties (R.) • Donald Trump Has a Goldman Sachs Problem: Derivatives (Martens) • Theresa May to Trigger Brexit on March
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Fall of Icarus 1558 • White House Immigration Ban Promises Constitutional Showdown (BBG) • Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Over Executive Order Defiance (AP) • Philip Roth E-Mails On Trump (NewYorker) • How a Bank Conquered Washington (Nomi Prins) • Goldman CEO Takes Lead On Wall Street In Slamming Trump Travel Ban (R.) • The Pitfalls of Replacing Obamacare (Economist) • Fed: Banks Under $250 Billion Threshold Get Break on Stress Tests (WSJ) • Is
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