FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Henri Matisse Open window, collioure 1905 • Albert Edwards: “Chinese Authorities Lost Control Back In 2015” (ZH) • China Nationalizes Third Bank Since May (SCMP) • US, China Step Up War Of Words Over Hong Kong (AFP) • Who’s Afraid of Tulsi Gabbard? (Matt Taibbi) • Rude Awakening (Kunstler) • Huge Cache Of Records Details How Jeffrey Epstein And Madam Lured Girls (MH) • If You’re A Sexual Predator, It Pays To Be A Rich One (MH) •
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001 The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unsealed a batch of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case today, as announced recently. Actually, it’s a case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s madam and main procurer of little girls. Giuffre bought the case after Maxwell accused her of lying about the whole thing. There’s still much more of this to come, and given the
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Odilon Redon Street in Samois 1888 • UK Economy Contracts On Back Of Brexit Uncertainty (G.) • The Dramatic Drop In Sterling Is Only A Taste Of What Is To Come (G.) • Johnson Plotting Abuse Of Power To Force No-Deal Brexit – Corbyn (G.) • Andrew McCabe Sues DOJ, FBI Over “Politically Motivated Firing” (ZH) • Uber Loses $5.2 Billion on $3.2 Billion in Revenue (WS) • Italy’s Matteo Salvini Calls For Fresh Elections As Coalition Fractures
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Edward Hopper Ground swell 1939 The US government has to come up with very very strong legislation for social media, and it has to do that very soon. Because if it doesn’t, it risks those same social media inciting a civil war (that’s no hyperbole, that is real) on American soil. And beyond as well, but as Donald Trump said about European efforts to curtail Twitter, Facebook et al’s activities, they’re American companies and hence America’s responsibility. Well,
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Piet Mondriaan New York City I 1942 • Globalization As We Know It Will Not Survive Trump (G.) • The Technological Revolution Devours its Children (Dmitry Orlov) • Donald Trump More Popular Today Than In 2016 (Raw) • New York Times Stock Price Has Soared During Trump’s Presidency (R.) • MMT May Be Democrats’ Economic Cure, But Only Trump Got The Memo (R.) • New Rebel Bid To Halt No-Deal Brexit Amid Fury At PM’s Enforcer (G.) •
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Pablo Picasso Portrait of Dora with bun 1937 • The Future Of Britain Is In The Hands Of Unelected Svengali Cummings (Oborne) • No-Deal Brexiteers Are Winning Because They Want It More (Sky) • UK Too Desperate To Secure US Trade Deal – Larry Summers (G.) • Brexit: Michael Gove Accuses ‘Wrong And Sad’ EU Of Intransigence (G.) • Met Police Examine Vladimir Putin’s Role In Salisbury Attack (G.) • China State Banks Seen Supporting Yuan In Forwards
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Piet Mondriaan Avond (Evening): The Red Tree 1908-10 • Yuan, Futures Surge After PBOC Fix Is Stronger Than Expected (ZH) • China’s Yuan Steadies But Stocks Plunge As Trade Tensions Grow (R.) • Kyle Bass: Yuan Would Collapse 30%-40% If China Stopped Supporting It (CNBC) • US Designates China As Currency Manipulator For First Time In 25 Years (R.) • China State Media Says US ‘Destroying International Order’ (R.) • China Confirms It Is Suspending US Farm Products
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Odilon Redon Peyrelebade landscape 1880 It’s never easy to gauge what exactly is happening in China, or why the CCP Politburo takes the decisions it does. Today, or overnight, is no exception to that. However, one thing that appears certain, but which I don’t see reflected in all the analyses, is that Beijing pushing the value of the renminbi (yuan) down below 7 to the USD in one fell swoop, is a major setback for Xi Jinping and
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Piet Mondriaan Study for Blue Apple Tree Series 1908 • Currency War Begins: China Crashes Yuan Past 7, Halts US Agri Imports (ZH) • China Lets Yuan Slump Past 7 Per Dollar For First Time In Over A Decade (R.) • Hong Kong Brought To A Standstill As City-Wide Strikes And Protests Hit (G.) • Job Growth In Trump Land Is Dead In The Water (MW) • 10 Alarming Things About The Economy That Politicians Won’t Tell You
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FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail Julie Edgley Immature white tailed eagle. • An Economy Based on Plunder (PCR) • Economics Is A Failing Discipline Doing Great Harm (Simms) • Joe Biden To Millennials: Stop Complaining (HPo) • Dominic Cummings: UK Lawmakers Can’t Stop No-Deal Brexit (R.) • Justice Dept Bill Comes Due For Russiagate Costs (RT) • Celebrities, Royals, Politicians Fear Release Of Jeffrey Epstein Files (Tel.) • California Scrubs Controversial Kamala Harris-Era Arrest Reports • America’s Elites: Fractured and At Odds with
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