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Tonight’s Conversation Inside The White House

Realize this has been posted by others, but love this quote from piglet pic.twitter.com/t9qYIavmLY — Catspaw (@17catspaw) November 1, 2016

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Let The Political Shitshow Begin

It’s about to get interesting, folks. We have been warning of the rising political risk. Cohen had struck a deal with U.S. attorneys in Manhattan’s southern district after months of court proceedings related to a raft of materials seized in … Continue reading

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Videographic: European Central Bank

Videographic on the European Central Bank. After years of austerity, Greece emerged on Monday from its third and last bailout. The European Union, ECB and the International Monetary Fund loaned the country a total of 289 billion euros ($330 billion) … Continue reading

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Tweet Of The Day: ML & AI

Bringing data to life … Here’s Chartstravaganza! pic.twitter.com/pBTjCGhjKu — Plan Maestro (@PlanMaestro) August 19, 2018  

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Other Fowl Plays In The Emerging Markets

Fowl Play? The Twisted Linguistics of Turkey American turkeys and African guinea fowl, victims of Portuguese vagary, became inextricably mixed. Today the geographically garbled turkey is known as dinde (from poule d’Inde or chicken of India) in France, kalkoen (from Calicut hen) in the Netherlands, and indjushka (Indian … Continue reading

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You Go, Girl!

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Week In Review – August 17

Summary Turkey continues to get crushed across the board with 10-year blowing out another 40 bps on the week to over 21 percent EM bond markets hammered U.S. credit continues to behave well Euro periphery spreads widening with Italy out … Continue reading

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Sector ETF Performance – August 17

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Global Risk Monitor – August 17

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Feels Like 1997

Just back home after a week-long road trip to many major U.S. cities. The “Cranes Of Dubai”  As an economist, I am always looking for anecdotal evidence of how the local economy is doing.  What impressed me most was the … Continue reading

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