Paul Gauguin Christmas Night (The Blessing of the Oxen) , 1902-1903 • One Industry Will Keep Holding North America Together (CNBC) • China Bank Calls Documents ‘Fake’ After Bond Default Linked To Alibaba (R.) • The Trump Rally Is Young (CNBC) • What Is Productivity And Why Is The UK’s So Poor? (G.) • What’s Behind Obama’s Attacks On Putin (Carley) • British Councils Admit Massive Use Of Spying Powers On Public (G.) • Humankind Has Created 30 Trillion Tons
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau La naissance de Vénus 1879 • Alec Baldwin Offers To Play Inauguration: ‘I Wanna Sing Highway To Hell’ (G.) • Terminally Ill Dutch Boy Raises £2 Million With Nail-Painting Challenge (G.) • Syrian Chef Serves Up Slice Of Home In Greek Camp (AFP) • An Illegal Hub For Paywalled Science Papers (Nature) • The Radical Jesus (Whitehead) I was going to do a good news only Debt Rattle, but I’m afraid I’ve come up a tad
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Alfred Palmer Annette del Sur in salvage campaign, Douglas Aircraft Co., Long Beach, CA 1942 • The Connection Between Work and Dignity (B.) • 2016 Year In Review: A Clockwork Orange (Dave Collum) • A Week On Jury Duty With Rex Tillerson (Roden) • Putin Shrugs Off Trump’s Nuclear Plans, Says Democrats Sore Losers (R.) • President Xi Open to Growth in China Falling Below 6.5% (BBG) • Barclays Refuses To Settle With US DoJ Over ‘Craptacular Loans’ (G.) •
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Ben Shahn Quick lunch stand in Plain City, Ohio 1938 • Donald Trump Can’t Stop The Next Financial Crisis – Jim Rickards (MW) • “Russia Did It” – The Last Stand Of The Neocons (GEFIRA) • 94% Of All New Jobs Created During Obama Era Were Part-Time Or Contract (IC) • World Trade Falls to 2014 Level, Trump “Trade War” Might Make it Worse (WS) • Central Banks Have Cut Interest Rates 690 Times Since Lehman Brothers (CNBC) • Italian
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Shirley Temple Chrismas 1939 • Americans Are Now In More Debt Than They Were Before The Financial Crisis (MW) • Americans Want To ‘Live Big’ In The Trump Era (CNBC) • Percentage of Young Americans Living With Parents Rises to 75-Year High (WSJ) • Republican Presidents Can’t Seem To Avoid Recessions (BBG) • Plan To Tax US Imports Has Better Odds Of Becoming Law Than Many Think (CNBC) • Home Ownership Among 25-Year-Olds In England, Wales Halved In 20 Years
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Konstantinos Polychronopoulos, Athens December 2016 Apologies, but I have to talk one more time before Christmas about why I’m in Greece, again. Some of what I am about to say will repeat earlier articles, but I promise, there’s plenty of new things. Because I’m coming to grips with the situation I’m in here, seeing the landscape, seeing things in their perspective. I never had much use for -humanitarian- aid, I always had the same suspicion of what was going
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Laurits Andersen Ring At Breakfast 1898 • Most Expensive Housing Ever: A 1% Mortgage Rate Surge Changes Everything (MH) • This Christmas Americans Will Spend An Average Of $422 Per Child (EC) • Ray Dalio Says Animal Spirits Under Donald Trump Just Getting Started (F.) • Someone Has to Tell The Fed Inflation Is Not Accelerating (CEPR) • Brace Yourself For Italy’s Bankruptcy (Gavekal) • Italy Bank Rescue Won’t Fill $54 Billion Hole in Balance Sheets (BBG) • Top French
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Dorothea Lange Homeless mother and child walking from Phoenix to Imperial County CA 1939 • China Talks the Talk on Property Curbs, but Can it Walk the Walk? (BBG) • China May Be Losing Cat-and-Mouse Game With ‘Hong Kong Insurance’ Buyers (BBG) • New Italy PM Asks Parliament To Approve Borrowing €20 Billion For Banks (BBC) • After Aleppo: We Need A New Syria Policy (Ron Paul) • We’re About To Sign A Deal With Canada That’s Just As Bad
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Oil wells in Venice, California, bringing oil up from beach area 1952 • Amid The Bombs of Aleppo, All You Can Hear Are The Lies (Peter Hitchens) • Coup Or No Coup: The Electoral College Votes On Monday (ZH) • A Spy Coup in America? (Robert Parry) • Trump Wants To Hear Hacking Evidence Direct From FBI (WSJ) • The $12 Trillion Credit Risk Juggle (BBG) • Gone in 60 Seconds: Chinese Snap Up Dollars as Yuan Tanks (BBG) •
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Dorothea Lange Country store, Person County, NC Jul 1939 • Here’s How Americans Spent Their Money In The Last 75 Years (MW) • Global Debt, Equity Markets Lose $1 Trillion In Value This Week (ZH) • January 2017 Earnings Is Going To Be a Bloodbath (EconMatters) • Trump Talked, the Fed Listened: Shrink the Balance Sheet, Bullard Says (WS) • Pentagon Says China to Return Drone; Trump Says They Can Keep It (BBG) • Free Cash in Finland. Must Be
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