The top lot will be Shepard's drawing for A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh, " "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin" (1926).

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And it is the public sector that will bear the brunt of the coming crunch.

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Neelkanth Mishra, a strategist at Credit Suisse and a longstanding bear on the economy, reckons the quality of capital coming in is falling too, with flightier and riskier debt rather than stickier equity investments.

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All of this is important for both the public and the Netanyahu government to bear in mind in the coming days, weeks and months.

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