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Daily Digest 9/20 - The Looming DROP Apocalypse, Bye Bye Bugs?

by Daily Digest
Thursday, September 20, 2018, 11:15 AM
  • The Looming DROP Apocalypse
  • Cuomo's Win: It's All About the Money
  • No more bailouts: The lawmakers behind Dodd-Frank say that taxpayers won’t foot the bill the next time a bank fails
  • 31 Percent Of U.S. Households Have Trouble Paying Energy Bills
  • Market Tops Take Time
  • Prepare for an onslaught of spam calls next year
  • Dollar Traders See the Fed’s Next Rate Hike as a Big Sell Signal
  • Amazon might open thousands of its grab-and-go stores over the next three years
  • Big Death:  How Kuhn Was Wrong And Foucault Was Right
  • Slow-speed driver-less shuttle service set to begin testing in Columbus next week
  • 10-year Treasury yield hits 4-month high as bond market sells off
  • Oil Prices Inch Higher On Crude, Gasoline Draw
  • Hog manure is spilling out of lagoons because of Hurricane Florence’s floods
  • How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce radioactive waste
  • Climate Change May Mean Abandoning Our Coasts Forever
  • Mosquitoes are eating plastic. Why that's a big problem.
  • These Nearly-Extinct Animals Would Fit on a Single Subway Car
  • Bye bye bugs? Scientists fear non-pest insects are declining
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Daily Digest 9/19 - Soaring Global Debt Raises Red Flags, Will Emanuel Put Chicago Taxpayers At Risk?

by Les Pierce
Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 10:06 AM
  • Commentary: Will Emanuel put Chicago taxpayers at even greater risk?
  • Report: Every adult in the state owes $4,000 for teacher health care costs; pensions not included (Illinois)
  • Why the U.S.-China trade deficit is so huge: Here’s all the stuff America imports
  • 29 Utah cities increased credit card debt in 2018
  • A spike in 10-year Treasury yields could trigger a financial crisis to rival the Great Depression
  • Soaring global debt raises plenty of red flags
  • Turkish lira weakens 2 pct, erasing gains made after last week's rate hike
  • Lehman-Era Alphabet Soup of Market Products Is Back on Table
  • Egypt cancels debt auction as foreign investor appetite weakens
  • The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare
  • How Solar and Wind Mandates Tax the Poor and Middle Class
  • Off Tanzania, in one of the world’s richest seas, why is the catch getting smaller?
  • “Only A Matter of Time” Before Category 6 Hurricane Hits U.S.
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Daily Digest 9/18 - The Age Of Flux, Is The Shale Showdown Overblown?

by Daily Digest
Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 10:54 AM
  • Survey highlights tensions in public attitudes toward science
  • The Han-opticon
  • China Strikes $60 Billion of U.S. Goods in Growing Trade War
  • The Age Of Flux
  • Judge to Georgia voting officials: You’re terrible at digital security
  • Is The Shale Slowdown Overblown?
  • 2100, and the Fundamental Fallacy of Climate Change Predictions
  • UN report identifies where global harvests will rise and fall by 2050
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Daily Digest 9/17 - We've 'Learned Nothing' 10 Years After The Crash, Will Global Warming Sink the Netherlands?

by Daily Digest
Monday, September 17, 2018, 12:22 PM
  • Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing
  • What Keeps Them Up At Night
  • Why are African leaders pushing for population growth?
  • ‘Chlorine delivered’: Idlib militants ‘readying false flag attack’ in Syrian village – Russian MoD
  • Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Ebola 2018: Cautious Optimism Is In Order
  • Norway’s Offshore Oil Boom Is Back On
  • Call to conserve one-third of oceans, land to head off extinction crisis
  • Michigan’s water crisis is rapidly extending beyond Flint
  • Hurricane Florence vs. Typhoon Mangkhut: The difference between the 2 major storms
  • Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?
  • Will Global Warming Sink the Netherlands?
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Daily Digest 9/15 - How The West Was Lost, No Way To Avert The Next Financial Crisis

by Daily Digest
Saturday, September 15, 2018, 10:10 AM
  • The next financial crash is imminent, and China’s resource crisis could be the trigger
  • There's no way to avert the next financial crisis, warn former regulators from 2008 meltdown
  • A Whimper and a Bang
  • France Considers Requiring that All Local Police Carry Guns
  • What Does It Mean To Live Our Entire Lives Under Digital Surveillance?
  • The U.S. Is The World’s Top Oil Producer, But For How Long?
  • Hungrier insects will bite into world’s crops
  • Landfall, Storm Surge and the Waffle House Index: Hurricane Terms and What They Mean
  • Trump administration, as expected, to stop funding UN Population Fund
  • On Waste Plastics at Sea, She Finds Unique Microbial Multitudes
  • How the West Was Lost
  • An Equator Full Of Hurricanes Shows A Preview Of End Times
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Daily Digest 9/14 - Good News Friday: Layoffs At 50-Year Low, Can Oil Demand Peak Within 5 Years?

by Daily Digest
Friday, September 14, 2018, 11:52 AM
  • Although we’re running low on doctors, the solution may not be more doctors
  • Layoffs Just Reached a Half-Century Low
  • 'Oldest known drawing' found on tiny rock in South Africa 
  • Scientists find 3 bizarre new sea creatures in pitch-black part of Pacific Ocean
  • California Just Signed The World’s Most Aggressive Climate Bill
  • Can Oil Demand Really Peak Within 5 Years?
  • Impossible Aerospace raises $9.4 million, launches drone that flies 2 hours on a single charge
  • A bunch of scientists are fighting to make Pluto a planet again
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Daily DIgest 9/13 - Anger Mismanagement, UN Warns Of "Existential Threat" To Humanity

by Daily Digest
Thursday, September 13, 2018, 7:54 AM
  • Oregon just became the first state to legalize mass timber high-rises, and it could lead to a boom in tall wood buildings
  • Gold, Currency IOUs and Inflation
  • Anger Mismanagement, by Robert Gore
  • Elon Musk smoking weed has much more dire consequences than you realize
  • Gas Could Overtake Oil As The Largest U.S. Energy Source This Year
  • 6 Years Ago, North Carolina Chose To Ignore Rising Sea Levels. This Week It Braces For Disaster.
  • Warning of 'Existential Threat' to Humanity, UN Chief Says Climate Change 'Moving Faster Than We Are'
  • UN says more worldwide going hungry, blames climate change
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Daily Digest 9/12 - Massive Global Debt Looms, U.S. Budget Deficit Widens To 5th Highest Ever

by Les Pierce
Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 10:32 AM
  • As opioid crisis rages, cost of overdose antidote spikes
  • Metro’s soaring pension costs threaten future service, federal report says
  • U.S. budget deficit widens to fifth-highest ever, CBO reports
  • Egypt cancels second consecutive T-bond sale due to high yields
  • Massive global debt looms as major risk 10 years after GFC, Canada Pension Plan chief warns
  • Once wealthy, many Argentines now resort to soup kitchens, bartering
  • China Bond Traders Boost Leverage With PBOC Watching Closely
  • Rupee Targets Slashed as Overseas Funds Dump Indian Bonds
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Daily Digest 9/11 - Conjuring Up The Next Depression, Huge Vegetation Change Could Affect Earth

by Daily Digest
Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 12:36 PM
  • Conjuring Up the Next Depression
  • Brexit: Beware The Ides Of March
  • How Things Fall Apart: Extremes Aren't Stable
  • Several Killed After Militants Storm Libya's National Oil HQ In Tripoli
  • The future of food: what we’ll eat in 2028
  • Leading U.S. Health Systems Announce Plans to Develop a Not-for-profit Generic Drug Company
  • A decade after the financial crisis, this retirement dilemma still hasn't been solved
  • Crypto-Mania Collapse Update: $638 Billion Gone
  • Tesla’s stock stumble is a buying opportunity, analyst says
  • Trump's trade war has forced one of Europe's most famous automakers to delay a $30 billion IPO
  • More teens would rather text their friends than hang out IRL
  • Hurricane Florence is heading toward the US and increasing in force
  • Huge vegetation change could affect Earth
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Daily Digest 9/10 - The End Of The Oil Price Rally, China Vows Response On Trade

by Daily Digest
Monday, September 10, 2018, 10:56 AM
  • Will America Suffer the Same ‘Fate of Empires’?
  • An Inside Account of the National Prisoners’ Strike
  • Homeless people at almost every L.A. landmark illustrates the depth of the problem
  • On This Day: Andrew Jackson shuts down Second Bank of the U.S.
  • China vows to respond if U.S. takes new steps on trade
  • China Just Tested Several Dozen Hypersonic Missiles The US Can’t Defend Against
  • There are more microbial species on Earth than stars in the sky
  • SEC Temporarily Suspends Bitcoin and Ether Exchange Traded Note (ETN) Trading
  • Can You Win an Election by Talking About Segregation?
  • Oil up as U.S. drilling stalls, Iranian sanctions bite
  • The End Of The Oil Price Rally
  • Pipeline dumps 8,000 gallons of jet fuel into Indiana river
  • The Colorado River is evaporating, and climate change is largely to blame
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