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The data is clear: humans are overtaxing the world’s ecosystems at an accelerating rate.

How can society wean itself away from its business-as-usual practices of natural resource extraction and depletion? What steps can we take to be agents of positive, regenerative change?

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• ‘You have to vote for me’ or stock market will crash, Trump says at rally
• Fed’s Powell must signal a more aggressive stance on rates at Jackson Hole or stocks will tumble, James Bianco warns
• Asset Managers With $74 Trillion on Brink of Historic Shakeout
• The CEOs of nearly 200 companies just said shareholder value is no longer their main objective
• China prepares its ‘nuclear option’ in trade war
• The Bay Area is booming — and bracing for a slowdown
• Trump says China talks ‘productive’; Beijing vows tariff retaliation
• Trump Held Call With Dimon, Moynihan, Corbat as Markets Plunged
• UK faces food, fuel and drug shortages, says contested leaked document
• Trump’s Fall 2019 China Tariff Plan: Five Things You Need to Know
• Does An Inverted Yield Curve Always Predict A Recession?
• Amid the Kale and Corn, Fears of White Supremacy at the Farmers’ Market
• Singapore to Raise Retirement Age With Power Transition Approaching
• China Shifts Purchase Priorities From Manufacturing Materials to Food
• Oh that it should come to this, Part 11
• The Massive ‘Pig Ebola’ Epidemic Will Give Trump Big Leverage In His Trade Standoff With China
• Designer babies are on the way. We’re not ready
• Oil Rebounds After Economic Data Dampens Recession Fears
• OPEC Turns Bearish On Oil
• Russia nuclear monitoring sites lost contact after mystery blast: report
• Iceland bids farewell to first glacier lost to climate change
• Scientists bid farewell to the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change. If more melt, it can be disastrous
• The North Atlantic’s Mystery Spot

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• The trade war is already lost, Trump is doomed and this investment is about to go ‘ballistic,’ strategist says
• Wells Fargo closed company’s accounts, but the fees continued to mount
• Here are five risks facing the US economy
• Consumer Confidence Crashes As Rate-Cut Triggered “Apprehensions About A Recession”
• U.S. Weighs Selling 50- and 100-Year Bonds After Yields Plummet
• Top U.S. medical centers roll out DNA sequencing clinics for healthy (and often wealthy) clients
• GE On The “Verge of Insolvency” Claims Whistleblower Report
• Argentine Crisis 2019: 5 Things People are doing to Prepare
• The Battle of the ‘Flations has Begun
• Nearly Half Of U.S. Adults Have Layoff Anxiety: Survey
• The ‘bloodbath’ in America’s trucking industry has officially spilled over to the rest of the economy
• UPS Has Been Delivering Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks for Months And No One Knew
• And Now, the Really Big Coal Plants Begin to Close
• Deere struggles as farmers fret about the trade war
• Why there is ‘shock and distrust’ among U.S. farmers
• E.P.A. Backtracks on Use of ‘Cyanide Bombs’ to Kill Wild Animals
• First-ever mandatory water cutbacks will kick in next year along the Colorado River
• The West Is Trading Water for Cash. The Water Is Running Out
• You could be swallowing a credit card’s weight in plastic every week

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For those paying attention, there have been plenty of signs indicating that financial asset prices are dangerously overvalued and that the decade-long economic expansion is reversing towards recession.

But the mainstream — until just recently — has refused to see this.

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• Ine Chicago, Rethinking The Link Between Crime And Incarceration
• The No. 1 job in America with the ‘best career opportunities’ pays $112,000 a year — and it’s not in tech
• Actually, Gender-Neutral Pronouns Can Change A Culture
• A Cure for Ebola? Two New Treatments Prove Highly Effective in Congo
• Uber Driver Surprises Fast Food Worker With New Clothes After Hearing About Her Christmas Wish
• Historic First: Wind Turbines Deliver More Energy Than Coal in Texas–the Largest Consumer of Coal in US
• New York decriminalizes marijuana use
• Coke and Pepsi abandon the plastics lobby
• Report: How restoring polluted Great Lakes waters leads to cities’ rebirth
• This Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cow Emissions by 99%—and It Could Soon Be a Climate Gamechanger

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• Recession fears just hit an 8-year high for the biggest investors on Wall Street
• Dow tanks 800 points in worst day of 2019 after bond market sends recession warning
• Banks are paying people to borrow money, and that’s alarming news for the global economy
• Gold could hit $2,000 in a world full of negative yields
• Global Economic Trouble Is Brewing, and the Trade War Is Only Part of It
• Bond Rally Charges On With 30-Year Treasury Yields Below 2%
• Mortgage rates fall below 4% and refis explode as rates tumble
• Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette: Shoppers have ‘no appetite’ for price increases from looming tariffs
• China: Paper Tiger
• Study Finds Rise In ‘Doomsday Prepping’ Due To Mainstream American ‘Culture Of Fear’
• US ambassador threatens to withdraw troops from Germany
• Our Galaxy’s Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up and Nobody Knows Why
• K.I.S.S. Strategy – Part One
• ‘This will be catastrophic’: Maine families face elder boom, worker shortage in preview of nation’s future
• The Average US Farm Is $1.3 Million In Debt, And Now The Worst Farming Crisis In Modern History Is Upon Us
• Russia Urges Villagers to Leave Radioactive Blast Site
• NASA studies how Arctic wildfires change the world
• Wildfires above the Arctic Circle in Greenland and Alaska
• ‘It is raining plastic’: Scientists find colorful microplastic in rain
• Microplastics Are Airborne, Polluted Arctic Snow Reveals

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Sentiment is finally breaking. Once it breaks fully, the ride downward will likely be very sharp, quick and brutal for everyone caught unprepared.

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• Zimbabwe after Mugabe: The country where pensions have disappeared
• Nearly 40% Of Education Spending Consumed By Pension Costs
• New York health insurance premiums will grow in 2020
• More Americans are falling behind on their debt payments
• Demand for junk bonds grows, and so do liquidity worries
• Why Gold Prices Are About To Skyrocket Even Higher
• Central bank rate cuts are inflating a cheap money bubble
• Recession Fears Spike to 2011 High as Risk of Bubbles Spreads
• Argentina Default Fear Looms as Traders Dump Assets
• Negative bond yields are not reflecting economic reality, Fitch warns
• Bonds Meet the Four Criteria for Defining a Bubble
• Tesla Pickup Truck: Everything We Know, Including Price, Range & More
• Heat Wave Pushes Texas Power Demand To Record-High

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• Dow Jones Tumbles 400 Points, But These 3 Blue Chip Stocks Are Holding Up
• Lowe’s spent billions on share buybacks, zero on severance for laid-off workers
• Photos: Hong Kong protesters took over the city’s airport
• New rules to deny green cards to many legal immigrants
• Why Gold Prices Are About To Skyrocket Even Higher
• Rare Earths Crisis in Retrospect
• Russian failed nuclear test hints at Putin’s dangerous plans to beat U.S. defenses
• Vodka From Chernobyl Is Perfectly Safe, Say the Scientists Who Made It
• Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture Tells Joke About Whining Farmers to Room Full of Farmers, Gets Boo’d
• Trump Administration weakens U.S. wildlife protections, states and conservationists to sue
• Forest animal populations have plummeted by half since 1970, report warns

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