Arthur Rothstein Family leaving South Dakota drought for Oregon 1936 • Wall Street Buzz Over Trump Gives Shiller Dot-Com Deja Vu (BBG) • This Is The Most Overvalued Stock Market On Record – Even Worse Than 1929 (MW) • Wall Street Has Found Its Next Big Short in US Credit Market: Malls (BBG) • Fed, In Shift, May Move To Faster Pace Of Rate Hikes (R.) • The Mystery of the Treasury’s Disappearing Cash (Stockman) • Countries With National
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Vincenzo Camuccini La Morte Di Cesare 1804 I don’t think Holland realized they planned their election on the Ides of March, don’t remember the date or event ever being mentioned when I lived there as a child. That Washington knew what it was doing when back in 2013 it set the end of the latest debt ceiling compromise to March 15 is not likely either. Nor is Janet Yellen deliberately setting the Fed’s ‘next’ rate hike on the date.
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DPC The Mammoth Oak at Pass Christian, Mississippi 1900 • The Ides of March Could Be A Critical Turning Point For The Stock Market (MW) • The US As The “Cleanest Dirty Shirt” (Snider) • A Third Of American Families Have ‘Roller Coaster’ Finances (MW) • US Interest Rate Rise To Deepen Developing Countries’ Debt Crisis (G.) • The Issue Is The Leverage And Instability Of The System (Rickards) • Who Bleeds When the Wolves Bite? (CNBC) • When
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NPC Newsstand with Out-of-Town Papers, Washington DC 1925 • Individual Investors Wade In as Stocks Soar (WSJ) • Stock Market Valuations Are Totally Unprecedented (Felder) • US Subprime Auto Loan Losses At Highest Level Since Financial Crisis (BBG) • US Government Revenues Suffer Biggest Drop Since The Financial Crisis (ZH) • Trump Fires US Attorney Preet Bharara After He Refuses To Quit (ZH) • A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Boomers Betrayed America (MW) • Netherlands Bars Turkish Ministers
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Robert Capa Warsaw, Poland 1948 • US Jobs Report Means Fed Rate Hike Is A Bolt-On Certainty (G.) • US Household Wealth Has Never Been Higher Relative To Income (ZH) • Rising Household Debt A Concern Across Asia (TEP) • Sessions Asks 46 Obama-Era US Attorneys To Resign (R.) • Trump’s Revised Travel Ban Dealt First Court Setback (R.) • Trump To Ask Merkel For Advice On Putin, Ukraine (R.) • Nobel Economist Deaton Takes Aim At Rent-Seeking US
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Marjory Collins “Italian girls watching US Army parade on Mott Street, New York” 1942 • Janet Yellen Is Busy Preparing America For A New Economic Era (G.) • Albert Edwards: Next Week The Fed Will Unleash “A Bond Market Bloodbath” (ZH) • Bill Gross: Don’t Be Fooled By ‘Trump Mirage’ (Forbes) • Why Do Politicians Continue To Push The Zombie Creed Of Austerity? (G.) • New WikiLeaks Reveal Proof Of Slippery Slope Toward Totalitarianism (Kucinich) • Assange Says Leaks
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Marjory Collins “Crowds at Pennsylvania Station, New York” 1942 • WikiLeaks Says Just 1% Of #Vault7 Covert Documents Released So Far (RT) • US Private Sector Adds 298,000 Jobs In February – ADP (R.) • Trump Begins to Map Out $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan (WSJ) • US Oil Price Plunges Toward $50 As A Perfect Storm Brews (CNBC) • Professor Steve Keen On The Problem With Europe (DR) • Varoufakis Back In Brussels In Push For ECB Transparency (EUO)
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Pablo Picasso Girl Before A Mirror 1932 Obviously, like hopefully many people, I’ve been following the WikiLeaks CIA revelations, and closely. It’s too early for too many conclusions, if only because WikiLeaks has announced much more will flow from that same pipeline. But one thing is already clear: the CIA is -still- a club that sees enemies behind every tree, and behind every TV set too. Which is not as obvious a world view as it may seem; it’s
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Dorothea Lange A Family Of Mexican Migrants, On The Road In California 1936 • Wikileaks ‘Vault 7’, Largest Ever Publication Of Confidential CIA Docs (ZH) • Snowden: What The Wikileaks Revelations Show Is “Reckless Beyond Words” (ZH) • WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged CIA Hacking Documents (NYT) • Wikileaks: CIA Capable Of Cyber “False Flag” Attack To Blame Russia (TAM) • CIA Contractor on #VAULT7 Leak: ‘There is Heavy Shit Coming Down’ (RF) • US Trade Deficit Jumps To
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Edward Steichen Marlene Dietrich 1932 • The World Economy Can’t Handle Even One US Rate Hike (CNBC) • Wall Street Investors Make $3 Trillion Since Trump Election Victory (Ind.) • China Banking System Overtakes Eurozone To Become Biggest In The World (Ind.) • The Finance Curse (Renegade) • Money and the Government – Ann Pettifor (Vogue) • Great Expectations -Not- (Jim Kunstler) • Manufacturing Consent: The Movie – Journalism Cannot Be A Check On Power (RS) • 66 Of
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