By Ernesto Londono @ NYTimes.com, Dec. 15

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Even Paraguay’s antidrug chief couldn’t believe what was happening.

In October, officials there said they had foiled a plot to deploy a car bomb packed with 187 pounds of explosives to free a jailed drug lord. Days later, heavily armed men threatened in a video to kill the country’s attorney general. “There is a price on your head,” the men warned.  Then came two chilling murders: A lawyer who represented drug king pins was assassinated as she stepped out of a meeting, and a young woman was stabbed to death with a dinner knife while visiting a drug trafficker in prison.

Now that Maggie Haberman and the NYTimes has picked up on this meme and is obviously poking Trump with it, I think it's time to start a new Chief of Staff thread!

By Alexandra Stevenson & Matt Phillips @ NYTimes.com/Business, Dec. 14

• Stocks fell into a deep decline as investors were confronted with more evidence that the trade war between the U.S. and China is weighing on growth.
• Disappointing retail sales and industrial output figures in China kicked off the downturn. All three major U.S. indexes were in correction territory