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Daily Digest 7/17 - The $247T Global Debt Bomb, Cyber Threat Warnings 'Blinking Red'

by Daily Digest
Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 11:14 AM
  • The $247 trillion global debt bomb
  • Netflix plummets after missing big on subscriber growth
  • It's Time to Give Up on Britain's National Health Service
  • Sexual Assault Inside ICE Detention: 2 Survivors Tell Their Stories
  • Florida is one of the best places to retire in America — here's exactly how much it costs for a dream retirement in the Sunshine State
  • Intel Official: Cyber Threat Warnings 'Blinking Red'
  • U.K. Poisoning Inquiry Turns to Russian Agency in Mueller Indictments
  • Gazprom’s Next Giant Gas Field
  • Scientists Have Found a Quadrillion Tonnes of Diamonds Lurking Deep Beneath Earth's Surface
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Daily Digest 7/16 - CA Preparing For Extreme Weather, You Aren't As Anonymous Online As You Think

by Daily Digest
Monday, July 16, 2018, 10:32 AM
  • This is the 'biggest bubble in the history of mankind and it's going to burst,' Ron Paul says
  • Trump and Putin Shake Hands in Helsinki, Then Meet Behind Closed Doors
  • RPT-China to its state media: keep calm, don't inflame trade row with U.S.
  • “Thanos Did Nothing Wrong”? 1000s Embrace The Population Control Philosophy Of Marvel’s Most Twisted Super-Villain
  • 'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online
  • On This Day: Jimmy Carter speaks about a national “crisis in confidence”
  • Law Enforcement Leaders Urge Alternatives to Family Detention
  • Chinese Oil Demand Growth Could Slow Down Soon
  • Alieno Arcanum Is A 5,221-HP Electric Hypercar With Alien Tech
  • California Is Preparing for Extreme Weather. It’s Time to Plant Some Trees.
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Daily Digest 7/14 - The Un-Making Of The West, The Hunt for Earth’s Deep Hidden Oceans

by Daily Digest
Saturday, July 14, 2018, 11:31 AM
  • As Trump backlash continues, STEM professionals in Texas run for office
  • The Un-Making of the West, Vol. I: Whistling Past the Graveyard
  • Deported In A Moment
  • Robots Can't Hold Stuff Very Well. But You Can Help
  • NASA Discovered Evidence of Life on Mars 40 Years Ago, Then Set It On Fire
  • The Hunt for Earth’s Deep Hidden Oceans
  • $7.5 billion Zumwalt Destroyer needs new engine despite only a few months of use
  • Researchers Study Thousands Of Ticks Collected By The People They Bit
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Daily Digest 7/13 - Good News Friday: Ending the Dead-End-Job Trap, Is Laziness Good For The Environment?

by Daily Digest
Friday, July 13, 2018, 11:45 AM
  • Federal Judge in California Halts Splitting of Migrant Families at Border
  • How Mexico Could Force America’s Hand on Immigrants
  • Ending the Dead-End-Job Trap
  • Reading Improves Memory, Concentration and Stress
  • Gov. Wolf signs new 'clean slate' bill for people living with criminal records
  • New York City teachers to get 6 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Hey, Savers! There’s Finally Some Good News For Your Cash
  • Thune: List of Tax Reform Good News Just Keeps Growing
  • Being Lazy Can Be Good for the Environment
  • Scientists Use CRISPR To Engineer Cancer Cells That Kill Own Tumor
  • Guest Opinion: The good side of environment news after a year of Trump
  • Good news for trees in the 25 Year Environment Plan
  • The man who ​thinks trees talk to each other
  • Scottish greenhouse gas emission rates 'halved since 1990'
  • Top 10 Happy Environmental Stories Of 2017
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Daily Digest 7/12 - How the BBC Lost the Plot on Brexit, China Closes Door To Recycling

by Daily Digest
Thursday, July 12, 2018, 9:52 AM
  • Residents of Stockton are set to get $500 a month with no strings attached in bid to boost economy
  • Inflation Is A Policy Decision
  • Merk Research: U.S. Business Chart Book
  • What Happens if I Really Do Run Out of Money in Retirement?
  • How the BBC Lost the Plot on Brexit
  • The Epic Battle Between Breast Milk and Infant-Formula Companies
  • The Big Cycle - Part 2
  • Study Confirms Most Psychopaths Live in Washington D.C.
  • The Downside Risk For Oil
  • Forget the trade war, China won't take our plastic anymore
  • Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
  • What Footage From 1980s Bike Races Can Teach Us About Climate Change
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Daily Digest 7/11 - Venezuela Sees Bartering Resurgence, Corporate Bond Market Getting Junkier

by Les Pierce
Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 11:04 AM
  • Venezuela sees resurgence of bartering as banks struggle to keep up with hyperinflation
  • Venezuela annual inflation hits 46,305 pct in June - congress
  • Wisconsin cities on hook for $2 billion in worker retirement benefits, study shows
  • Watsonville: Council to consider sending hotel tax increase to voters
  • Euro members consider more super-long borrowing as ECB mulls bond 'twist'
  • One year after historic tax increase, Illinois remains in the red
  • The Corporate Bond Market Is Getting Junkier
  • Mayor Cantrell's promise to remove some red light cameras would mean millions in lost revenue
  • These Pictures. What is Wrong
  • Starvation and Habitat Threats Stalk Killer Whales
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Daily Digest 7/10 - Iran Sanctions "Different This Time," Is This The Most Hawkish Fed Ever?

by Daily Digest
Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 7:52 AM
  • Generation wealth: how the modern world fell in love with money
  • Brett Kavanaugh: Who is he? Bio, facts, background and political views
  • Is This The Most Hawkish Fed Ever?
  • Nordstrom plans to open more stores with no inventory in Los Angeles, New York
  • Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
  • Trade Wars, Gold and a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
  • Iran Sanctions Are Different This Time
  • Humans are causing animals and plants to go extinct 1,000 times FASTER than their natural rate, warn scientists
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Daily Digest 7/9 - Looming Dollar Shortage Getting Worse, Who Is Liable When Robots And AI Go Wrong?

by Daily Digest
Monday, July 9, 2018, 10:39 AM
  • Looming Dollar Shortage Getting Worse As Emerging Markets Implode
  • The Meaning Of Good And Evil In Perilous Times
  • Varlam Shalamov: Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag
  • Here's How a Trade War Between the U.S. and China Could Get Ugly
  • Stock rally continues following jobs report
  • Lunar mystery solved by recovery of lost Apollo mission tapes
  • Thousands of Americans stand to be denied passports due to unpaid taxes
  • Comparing Average Rent In 540 Cities Around The Globe
  • Trump Freezes Billions In Obamacare Payments, Outraging Insurers
  • Who is liable when robots and AI get it wrong?
  • U.S Embassy in Haiti warns Americans to 'shelter in place' as violent protests escalate
  • Guatemalan illegal immigrant who has overstayed is visa AVOIDS JAIL and is given just a $280 fine for knocking down and killing an FBI agent and fire marshal
  • The Wall – take a look!
  • This Country Is Far Ahead Of Its Renewables Targets
  • Japan floods: At least 100 dead after record rainfall
  • A Frightening New Reason to Worry About Air Pollution
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Daily Digest 7/7 - Mexico's Next Chapter, Paying For Tesla's Gigafactory

by Daily Digest
Saturday, July 7, 2018, 12:55 PM
  • $700 billion will disappear from Social Security's coffers in next decade
  • Mexico’s Next Chapter
  • Survival Of The Richest
  • Trump Scoreboard still showing better numbers on jobs than wages as total hiring tops 3 million for the presidency
  • China-U.S. tariffs: Wisconsin cheese industry hopes Trump has strategy in trade disputes 
  • AP Exclusive: Washington psychiatric hospital called 'hell'
  • Nerve agents not found in samples from Syria's Douma – interim OPCW report 
  • 'All humanity has left the area': paying for Tesla's Gigafactory 
  • Psychology’s Replication Crisis Can’t Be Wished Away 
  • There Are Fears About an Oil Spike Above $150
  • U.S. agriculture secretary says exports at risk in tariff disputes
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Daily Digest 7/6 - Good News Friday: How To Rewild Yourself, Now Is The Time To Buy Gold

by Daily Digest
Friday, July 6, 2018, 11:25 AM
  • My advice after a year without tech: rewild yourself
  • “Find your passion” is bad advice, say Yale and Stanford psychologists
  • Combining Antibiotis May Stave Off Future Superbugs
  • Precious Metals Price Outlook: Buy Now
  • As The Currency Reset Begins – Get Gold As It Is “Where The Whole World Is Heading”
  • The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber
  • Why Millennials Should Invest In Agriculture
  • The Nature Conservancy: 2018 Photo Contest Winners
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