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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Edvard Munch Vampire 1893 • Canadian PM Says Québec Mosque Shooting A ‘Terrorist Attack On Muslims’ (R.) • Canada To Offer Temporary Residency To Travelers Stranded By US (R.) • Trump Immigration Order Restricted By More US Judges (R.) • Priebus Says Trump’s Immigration Ban Doesn’t Include Green Card Holders (BBG) • Theresa May Confirms UK Exempt From Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ (Ind.) • A Clarifying Moment in American History (Eliot A. Cohen) • US Became A Dumping Ground For The
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Michael Andrews A Shadow 1974 • Donald Trump’s Cruel Ban On Refugees Sets A Chilling Precedent (Robert Fisk) • Judges Block Parts of Trump’s Order on Muslim Nation Immigration (BBG) • Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence (Wittes) • Trump’s Muslim Ban Triggers Chaos, Heartbreak, And Resistance (IC) • Science Can Decode the Laws of History and Predict US Political Violence (PT) • UK Agrees £100m Fighter Jet Deal With Turkey Despite Human Rights Abuse (Ind.) • Canada’s Justin Trudeau Takes A
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Wassily Kandinsky Autumn Landscape with Boats 1908 • US Economy Back Below “Stall Speed” (WS) • Dow Hits 20,000 As US National Debt Reaches $20 Trillion (Snyder) • US Auto Industry In Crisis Amid “Inventory Bubble” (ZH) • Trump’s Crusade on Drug Pricing Puts Both Parties on the Spot (BBG) • Trump Bars Door To Refugees, Visitors From Seven Nations (R.) • EU Lacks Leadership to Tackle Global Crises – Czech Minister (BBG) • ‘It Looks as if the World
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Kathimerini Trump and Evolution Jan 25 2017 • Theresa May: US and UK Will No Longer Invade Foreign Countries (Ind.) • Donald Trump’s Plan For China Relations Is To Be Unpredictable (G.) • Wave Of US State Department Personnel Resign, Are Fired (ZH) • How America Could Collapse (Nation) • Outrage Dilution (Adams) • How America Lost Its Identity – Megalomania & Small-Mindedness (Spiegel) • Obama Bequeaths A More Dangerous World (Parry) • China’s Shadow Banking Crusade Risks Bond Market
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Arthur Siegel Zoot suit, business district, Detroit, Michigan 1942 • Trump Loves Debt, But It Won’t Love Him Back (BBG) • US Tax Reforms Could ‘Transform’ Global Oil Market (R.) • Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties, UN (NYT) • Trump Starts A ‘Sanctuary City’ War With Liberal America (BBC) • Kyle Bass Calls Trump ‘Gasoline’ on Smoldering Fire in China (BBG) • China Keeps 3% Budget Deficit Goal For 2017 As Debt Risks Grow (R.) •
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Jack Delano Family of Dennis Decosta, Portuguese Farm Security Administration client 1940 • US Demoted To ‘Flawed Democracy’ (CNBC) • David Stockman: Prepare for Fiscal Bloodbath, Not Fiscal Stimulus (DR) • Donald Trump Claims ‘Environmentalism Is Out Of Control’ (Ind.) • Trump Administration Seeks To Muzzle US Agency Employees (R.) • Trump Poised To Build Wall, Ban Many Middle East Immigrants (WSJ) • Trump Pins Keystone, Dakota Pipeline Fate on Renegotiation (BBG) • Pricier Oil Means China’s Foreign Reserves Will
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Jack Delano Cars being precooled at the ice plant, San Bernardino, CA 1943 • UK Supreme Court Rules Parliament Must Have Vote On Triggering Article 50 (G.) • Global Markets Turn Back On Euro As Economic Woes Reinforce Dollar (Tel.) • Trump Withdraws From TPP Amid Flurry Of Orders (G.) • Beppe Grillo Agrees With ‘Moderate’ Trump, Blasts EU ‘Total Failure’ (Exp.) • Trump is the start of Global Regime Change (Artemis) • Protest In The Era Of Trump (Krieger)
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