The Automatic Earth

Debt Rattle February 5 2026

Feb 052026

February 5, 2026 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:15 am Finance Tagged with: EU, FBI, Homan, ICE, Minnesota, Rutte, sanctions, Spain 53 Responses »

Paul Cézanne Countryside in Auvers-sur-Oise 1881-82 • Putin Notifies Xi Of New START Status (ZH) • The Two Levels of EU-Sanctions Illegality (Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños) • Rutte Says Post-Ukraine Peace To Include NATO Boots By Air, Land & Sea (ZH) • Breaking News From Miami, Teheran (Helmer) • A Bigger Backstory, Vindicating DNI Tulsi Gabbard (CTH) • Rep. Jerry Nadler Triggers Outcry Over Violent Rhetoric Against ICE (Turley) • Spain Announces Major Social Media Crackdown (RT) • ‘I Wasn’t

Debt Rattle February 4 2026

Feb 042026

February 4, 2026 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:35 am Finance Tagged with: Elon Musk, Epstein, GOP, ICE, Tulsi Gabbard, X 65 Responses »

David Hockney The Big Tree in Autumn 1 November 2020 • U.S. Navy Shoots Down Iranian Drone Approaching Aircraft Carrier (Salgado) • Europe’s Russian Gas Ban Is Set to Trigger a New Wave of LNG Tanker Demand (Slav) • New York Released Almost 7,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens (Salgado) • The Trump Coalition Wins, But the GOP Brand Doesn’t (Daniel McCarthy) • Brussels Can’t Make Peace With Moscow Until It Breaks Its Habits (Ryumshin) • Musk’s X Office In Paris Raided

Debt Rattle February 3 2026

Feb 032026

February 3, 2026 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:01 pm Finance Tagged with: AI, Clinton, Comer, Draft-Dodger, Pretti, Venezuela 63 Responses »

John French Sloan McSorley’s Bar 1912 • AIs Now Talking With One Another Behind Our Backs (Stephen Green) • Clintons Bend The Knee To Comer, Agree To Testify In House Epstein Inquiry (ZH) • Awards Season (James Howard Kunstler) • The Circular Firing Squad (Jonathan Turley) • The Remaking of Alex Pretti: Imperfect Times Demand the Perfect Hero (Turley) • Warner (Sundance at CTH) • The Great Dispossession (Paul Craig Roberts) • Let the Arms Race Begin (NYT) • Trump

02-02-2026 Music and Literature

Feb 022026

February 2, 2026 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 2:18 pm Finance Tagged with: literature, music, philosophy, Russia, Trump, Ukraine 22 Responses »

Willem de Kooning Door to the river 1960 Jim Kunstler this week suggests that Russia is closer to the US way of thinking than any of its European allies: “..Russia is actually doing what it can to preserve Western Civ, including Christianity, literature, music, philosophy, and domestic civility..” Not many westerners will share this view. We see ourselves as the protectors and keepers of civilization. Certainly not the Russians. Or Donald Trump. Many people today see Minneapolis (not unlike Ukraine),

28-1-2026 One Child

Jan 282026

January 28, 2026 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:06 pm Finance Tagged with: birth rate, China, fertility rate, one-child policy 222 Responses »

Georgia O’Keeffe Red poppy 1927 Here’s something that stuck in my thoughts. I was aware that China had a one-child policy at some point, I just didn’t realize at what point that was, and how long for. Turns out now they want to end that policy, and reverse it if they could. And they want to stop it just one generation after it started. Guess it was nsot a success. These people thought they could predict the future, but they

23-1-2026 US GDP

Jan 232026

January 23, 2026 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 2:53 pm Finance Tagged with: Bartiromo, CNBC, GDP, Margolis, Trump 215 Responses »

Jasper Johns Map 1961 (yes, it’s the US) Post brain fart, we’ll slowly be coming back, having used the forced pause to make some long intended changes. Let’s see where this leads us. I want to do some more writing than in the past few years, though I don’t know if I even still know how to do it. But losing RT again seems a good moment to do it (BTW, if anyone has a URL for RT that works

Debt Rattle November 29 2025

Nov 292025

November 29, 2025 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:02 pm Finance 2 Responses »

Rene Magritte Memory 1948 In mid-October, I had a ‘cerebral infarction’. Spent some time in hospital, then in a revalidation center. Now, I intend to revive/continue The Automatic Earth. It will be step by little step. Both my body and my mind are ‘shaken’ and my eyesight was hit badly. Sorry.

(No) Debt Rattle October 14 2025

Oct 142025

October 14, 2025 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 5:53 pm Finance 1 Response »

The whole thing kind of collapsed and I have to rebuild from scratch. If only I knew how. I’m not a programmer. Patience please. WordPress Is not the most forgiving software, to put it mildly.

Debt Rattle October 12 2025

Oct 122025

October 12, 2025 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:36 pm Finance 121 Responses »

Rene Magritte Memory 1948 Let’s hope this gets better now… CNN was visibly stunned as they reported crowds in Tel Aviv wearing MAGA hats and loudly cheering for President Trump: "Endless applause for President Trump. I saw people wearing Make America Great Again hats in that crowd." pic.twitter.com/T2eSnfoNtO — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 11, 2025 https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1977034079536099833 “When I was born the United States was about 90% White Christian. Today it is about 40% White Christian. That’s not accidental or organic,

Debt Rattle October 10a 2025

Oct 102025

October 10, 2025 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:07 am Finance 96 Responses »

Hieronymus Bosch , The Garden of Earthly Delights, centre panel, detail c1500 It's incredible to see Democrats whining about "selective prosecution" in the case of Letitia James. Her entire career is built on the selective prosecution of one man! Give me a break. pic.twitter.com/RmqySfYaxI — Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 10, 2025 How can American leaders betray their own country? pic.twitter.com/SwEE9jXcz3 — Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) October 9, 2025 Millions of dollars have been funneled to Antifa

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