DPC Madison Street east from Fifth Avenue, Chicago Sep 1 1900 • Both US Parties Need to Worry About Poverty (BBG) • The End of a Great Industrial Power: France Car Production Collapses (Gef.) • The Sad Case Of Japan Should Serve As A Warning For China (BBG) • China Faces Looming Bulge in Currency Pressure (WSJ) • Egypt Central Bank Devalues Currency By 48% In Exchange For IMF Loan (AlJ.) • ‘The FBI Is Trumpland’: Anti-Clinton Atmosphere Spurred Leaks
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London 1877 Amidst the epic flood of political statements and media commentary that keeps on rolling in and on, there’s something that doesn’t seem to occur to most people, and it should. That is, the unfortunate but apparently inevitable discussion about all the unfortunate and/or illegal things that either candidate may or may not have done, must be seen in the light of the capacity in which -perceived- errors or even crimes are committed. It is essential to this
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Lewis Wickes Hine Berrie pickers, Seaford, Delaware. ’17 children and 5 elders live here’ 1910 • S&P 500 Logs Longest Losing Streak Since 2011 (CNBC) • EU Plans New Rules To Cap US, UK’s £440bn Per Day Derivatives Business (Ind.) • Vancouver Home Sales Plunge 39% as New Rules Chill Market (BBG) • Clinton Foundation Case Moving Towards “Likely an Indictment” (RCP) • Obama Slams FBI Over New Hillary Clinton Emails (MJ) • Secret Recordings Fueled FBI Feud in Clinton
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Unknown Petersburg, Virginia. Group of Company B, U.S. Engineer Battalion 1864 • Asian Markets Show Jitters as Polls Narrow Gap Between Trump and Clinton (G.) • Goldman Says Weakening Yuan Is Behind Iron Ore Rally (BBG) • Maersk’s Profit Drops 43% On Overcapacity In Shipping Industry (BBG) • In Greece, Property Is Debt (NY Times) • Hillary Clinton Is Irreparably Damaged, Even If She Wins (MW) • 370 Economists, Including 8 Nobel Laureates: ‘Do Not Vote for Trump’ (WSJ) •
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Unknown Magazine and cannonballs at Battery Rodgers, Alexandria 1863 • Donna Brazile’s Sins A Microcosm Of Biased Media (BH) • FBI Finds No Clear Link Between Trump and Russia (NY Times) • FBI Speeds Up Clinton Email Investigation After Criticism (LATimes) • Halloween Nation (Jim Kunstler) • Global Bond Markets See Worst Rout in 3 Years (BBG) • A Little-Noticed Fact About Trade: It’s No Longer Rising (NY Times) • US Trucking Companies Pare Down Fleets Amid Tepid Shipping Demand
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Harris&Ewing State, War & Navy Building, Washington DC 1917 • Economic Stress As World Runs Out Of Dollars (AEP) • China as Factory to World Mulls the Unthinkable: Price Hikes (BBG) • European Banks Stuck With $1.3 Trillion of Bad Loans, KPMG Says (BBG) • FBI Obtains Warrant; Agents Waited Weeks To Tell Comey About Emails (WaPo) (WaPo) • Why Comey Jumped At The Chance To Reopen Hillary Investigation (DM) • FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe (WSJ)
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Harris&Ewing The White House kitchen, Washington DC 1909 • Democrats Should Ask Clinton To Step Aside (Kass)
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Jack Delano The Chicago & North Western between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa 1943 It looks like I owe you an update. Things move fast in the FBI vs Huma Abedin case. When only some 24 hours ago I started writing my article “Throw Huma Under the Bus?”, there was one thing I did not know at all, one thing I was guessing at as much as the reporters who brought it up, and one I couldn’t verify sufficiently to feel
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Alfred Palmer U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp, Parris Island, SC 1943 There is so much in innuendo and guesses and biased opinion floating around on this ‘morning after’ the Comey bombshell that the only option we have is to read and watch a ton of stuff and see what sticks. One thing that definitely should stick was published late last night by Paul Sperry for the New York Post. He scores a solid and massive point that looks
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Unknown No Dog Biscuits Today • It’s A First: Hillary Wants FBI To Publish Everything About Emails (DM) • Bernstein: New Evidence “A Real Bombshell” Or FBI Would Not Reopen Case (RCP) • 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Proposing Rigging Palestine Election (Obs.) • China Laughs, Says US Choosing Between ‘A Crazy Guy’ And ‘A Swindler’ (DC) • Inside The Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton, Trump (John Pilger) • Prof. Michael Hudson: The Criminals Control The US (Renegade) • Sorry,
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