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Daily Digest 6/19 - Spain's Mortgage Crisis Lingers, Student Loan Debt Has Doubled

by Les Pierce
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 9:39 AM
  • Spain's mortgage crisis lingers on as bad loans soar
  • Spain's high-speed trains and abandoned stations
  • Defense cuts 'hollowing out' European armies: U.S. envoy
  • U.S. Mint Sales of Silver Coins Reach Record in First Half
  • China Wrestles With Banks' Pleas for Cash
  • Spain's credit squeeze thwarts small companies' export plans
  • Argentina Province Slaps Hefty Tax on Embattled Mining Companies
  • Spanish Families Squat In Unfinished Buildings Out Of Desperation
  • 130,000 leave Germany due to failing economy, lack of business opportunities
  • Student loan debt has nearly doubled in last five years, report says
  • EU car sales hit 20-year low for May as recession hurts
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Daily Digest 6/18 - Lines Blur In Austerity Debate, Don't Fear The Taper

by Daily Digest
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 10:02 AM
  • Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt – If You Want To See The Future Of America Just Look At Detroit
  • Don't Fear The Taper
  • U.S. Treasury Gold – Is It There?
  • All the Gold in Fort What’s-Its-Name
  • Lines Blur in U.S.-Europe Debate on Austerity
  • Greek Leaders to Meet in Effort to Save Government
  • Chinese Scientists Discover New Method to Increase Recoverable Oil from Wells
  • Researchers find genetic diversity key to survival of honey bee colonies
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Daily Digest 6/17 - Oil Market Jitters Caused By Syria, Gagged By Big Ag

by Daily Digest
Monday, June 17, 2013, 11:47 AM
  • McD's worker sues: Don't pay by debit card
  • Philly Archdiocese grappling with pensions for clergy
  • The Prism
  • Liquid Fuel Consumption is Unlikely to Fall While it is Still Subsidized
  • Syrian War Causes Oil Market Jitters
  • An Arid Arizona City Manages Its Thirst
  • Gagged By Big Ag
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Daily Digest 6/16 - Nuclear Plants Closing Early, What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare

by Daily Digest
Sunday, June 16, 2013, 10:21 AM
  • Even Pessimists Feel Optimistic About the American Economy
  • FX Rates Said to Face Global Regulation in Libor Review
  • Aetna Pulls Out Of California Individual Insurance Market In Response To Obamacare
  • Suddenly, Retiree Nest Eggs Look More Fragile
  • China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
  • What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare
  • Nuclear Plants, Old and Uncompetitive, Are Closing Earlier Than Expected
  • Elon Musk Conceives New 'Hyperloop' Transportation System: Neither Plane, Train, Boat Nor Car. Is it ET3?
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Daily Digest 6/15 - Ghosts Of Shopping Past, Coal Industry Pins Hopes On Exports

by Daily Digest
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 10:28 AM
  • US Silver Eagle Sales Best First Half Year Ever
  • Google launches Internet-beaming balloons
  • Justices, 9-0, Bar Patenting Human Genes
  • After Patent Ruling, Availability of Gene Tests Could Broaden
  • The Number: 2.5%
  • Ghosts Of Shopping Past
  • Coal Industry Pins Hopes on Exports as U.S. Market Shrinks
  • Strange, Glowing Night Clouds Continue to Spread
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Daily Digest 6/14 - What's Happening In Japan, The Most Dangerous Cities in America

by Daily Digest
Friday, June 14, 2013, 1:12 PM
  • A Promise of Changes for Access to Secrets
  • Everything is Rigged, Vol. 9,713: This Time, It's Currencies
  • Here's What The Heck Is Happening In Japan
  • The Most Dangerous Cities in America
  • Political Scene: Privacy, Security, and Edward Snowden
  • What the Produce Section Looks Like in a World without Bees
  • Solar Power Offers Saudi Arabia a Win-Win Energy Solution
  • In Glittering Gems, Reading Earth's Story
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Daily Digest 6/13 - Companies Scramble For Consumer Data, Technology And Freedom

by Daily Digest
Thursday, June 13, 2013, 10:26 AM
  • Global Tumult Grips Markets
  • The Avatar Will See You Now
  • Neil Macdonald: Obama's whistleblower conundrum
  • Chinese Prepare for Public Flood into Gold
  • 60% chance of global recession: Pimco
  • Technology and freedom: iSpy
  • Companies scramble for consumer data
  • Rick Rule: How He'd Invest $100,000 In Gold Right Now
  • Only 41, ex-Ficano aide to start collecting estimated $96,000 annual pension
  • What Helps Organic Soils Store More Carbon?
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Daily Digest 6/12 - CO Food Stamp Use Doubles, Mini Flash Crashes Strike Again

by Les Pierce
Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 7:46 AM
  • California tops list of states with water infrastructure needs
  • Pennsylvania struggles to chip away at bridge problem
  • Sacramento County sheriff warns of big patrol cuts at budget hearing
  • States look to tax hybrids to recoup road funding
  • May Gold Sales Fall At Perth, U.S. Mint
  • Food Stamp Use Doubles In Colorado
  • Retirement savings: Why $1M may not be enough
  • Dramatic honeybee shortage threatens Calif. almond crop, nation's food supply
  • Mini flash crashes strike again
  • Cost of insuring emerging market debt soars on fears Fed will taper
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Daily Digest 6/11 - The Logic Of The Surveillance State, The Myth Of Executive Accountability

by Daily Digest
Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 10:43 AM
  • The Logic of the Surveillance State
  • Damage Control Time: National Intelligence Releases PRISM "Facts"
  • Social Security: The New Deal’s Fiscal Ponzi
  • France Prohibits Sending Currency, “Coins And Precious Metals” By Mail
  • Silver Cycles: What Next?
  • The myth of executive accountability
  • Driving Factors Behind Improvements in Water and Energy Production
  • Farm Equipment That Runs on Oats
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Daily Digest 6/10 - Rains Plaguing Midwest Farms, Big Brother Is Listening And No One Cares

by Daily Digest
Monday, June 10, 2013, 10:27 AM
  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things'
  • Neil Macdonald: Big Brother is listening in and no one seems to care
  • Leaker’s Employer Became Wealthy by Maintaining Government Secrets
  • Gold Price Reflecting Mike Maloney’s “First Deflation Then Inflation”
  • World’s Largest Coal Company Invests in Solar Power to Reduce Energy Costs
  • The Sequester May Start To Show In Data
  • After Drought, Rains Plaguing Midwest Farms
  • Mott Green, a Free-Spirited Chocolatier, Dies at 47
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