Category Archives: Daily Digest

• US shale an ‘unmitigated disaster’ with industry hundreds of billions in debt – shale pioneer
• Company earnings look like they will keep sliding through the third quarter
• We’re already in recession, here’s what to do, says economist who called last bubble
• Euro zone yields test lows as focus turns to under-fire Fed
• UBS: World economy ‘one step away from global recession’
• Putin’s Big Bet on Gold Is Paying Off
• A leveraged-lending bust could hit economy quicker than subprime blowup, says ex-FDIC boss Sheila Bair
• The Boomers Ruined Everything
• Myanmar shuts down internet in conflict areas as UN expert warns of potential abuses during blackout
• US releases review on removing vegetation to stop wildfires
• Managing climate change will require increased energy usage
• Colorado’s snowpack is 40 times normal after rare summer solstice dump

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• Iranians say their ‘bones breaking’ under US sanctions
• ‘Crowding diseases’ threaten migrant children held in US border protection facilities, expert says
• No, it’s not just you: Half of the internet is down, including Google, Amazon, and Reddit
• Average retirement-age Americans have this much in their 401(k), report says
• Taxed to the hilt, more northern homebuyers are migrating to Florida
• As the wealthy flee New York, poorest will be most affected
• Gold jumps to fresh high, now at levels not seen since August 2013
• ‘A leftward shift’: Communist party USA sees chance as progressives surge
• Oh that it should come to this Pt. 9
• Syria says sabotage damaged underwater oil pipelines
• Electric Jaguar XJ, hybrid airplanes, more driving, fewer Chinese EV makers
• Tesla starts work on substation to power Gigafactory 3 ahead of production
• OPEC’s Meeting: Market Expects Another Output Cut Next Week
• More than 500 arrested after protests and clashes as India water crisis worsens

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• At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
• Oregon Statehouse Shut Down After Lawmakers Team Up With Right-Wing Militias
• Oregon Capitol Closed After Threats From Militia Groups
• How the UAW Will Kill the Big Three
• Fear, Texts & Bodyguards
• CBS News “War Expert” Is Being Paid By Raytheon
• Court Nixes Federal Approval For Cadiz Pipeline To Suck Water Out Of The Mojave To Sell
• Who Gets to Own the West?

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• Venezuela closes border with Brazil, Colombian crossings may be next
• South China Sea: Satellite image shows Chinese fighter jets deployed to contested island
• White House unveils $50 billion Palestinian economic plan
• Trump says he doesn’t want war with Iran, but there will be ‘obliteration’ if it comes
• Iranian hackers wage cyber campaign amid tensions with US
• ICE’s planned deportation raids in 10 big cities: what we know
• President Trump announces delay of mass immigration raids that were to begin Sunday
• Russian Trolls Stir up Measles Vaccination Controversy
• U.S. Summer Driving Gets Off to Pricier Start as Refinery Burns
• Georgians received an alarming test alert for a ‘radiological hazard’

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• Anti-Robocall Bill Gets Bipartisan Backing
• Sadiq Khan announces car-free day in London to tackle air pollution
• Renewables are winning the economics battle against new coal and gas, stunning study shows
• Fake Meat Will Save Us
• Prehistoric People Built Little Artificial Islands in Scottish Lochs
• I Was a Newbie Bird Counter
• Three Surprising Solutions To Climate Change
• How to make biodegradable ‘plastic’ from cactus juice

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• Nuclear weapons: experts alarmed by new Pentagon ‘war-fighting’ doctrine
• Want a House Like This? Prepare for a Bidding War With Investors
• FASB Advances Toward Easing Accounting Burden for Libor Phaseout
• Number of People Fleeing Conflict Is Highest Since World War II, U.N. Says
• Oakland Councilmember Warns Oakland and Emeryville that they may lose Home Depot Stores over Blight
• Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang, marking first visit by Chinese leader to North Korea in 14 years
• Free Lunch!
• How 7.4 Tons of Venezuela’s Gold Landed in Africa—and Vanished
• This is what REAL SHTF looks like in a Farm or Homestead
• Iran Revolutionary Guard shoots down US drone amid tensions
• Democrats demand answers on Trump’s approach to Iran
• The Latest: 2 rockets land on oil company sites in Iraq
• Bullish EIA Data Pushes Oil Prices Higher
• Climate Change: Why is it So Often “Sooner than Predicted”?
• Our Love Of Almonds Is Seriously Jeopardizing Honeybees
• US beekeepers lost 40% of honeybee colonies over past year, survey finds
• India’s sixth biggest city is almost entirely out of water

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• Residents in Illinois’ Metro East area are fleeing a growing property tax burden, fueling regional population loss.
• Betting the house: investors demand higher premiums for risky Australian mortgage bonds
• Tuition increase coming to all of Oregon’s public universities
• Italy’s Public Debt Hits New High Of $2.66 Trillion In April – Central Bank
• When Debt Becomes A Life Sentence: The Rise of Terminal Debt
• French 10-year government bond yield turns negative after Draghi remarks
• ‘Super Mario’ shock: euro slides, yields hit new lows
• China holdings of U.S. Treasuries in April skid to nearly two-year low
• The View From Abroad: America As Others See It
• Oil Prices Jump On Hopes Of End To U.S.-China Trade War
• Greenland Was 40 Degrees Hotter Than Normal This Week, And Things Are Getting Intense

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• India is hitting the United States with more tariffs
• Ho Ho Ho It’s magic: Deutsche Bank, Market Cap $14B to Spin Off $50B in assets
• Risky partner: Top U.S. universities took funds from Chinese firm tied to Xinjiang security
• In El Paso, Border Patrol Is Detaining Migrants in ‘a Human Dog Pound’
• Trump may be about to face his biggest test yet on the economy
• State Department Funded Trolls To Attack Journalists Against Iran War
• PepsiCo offers to settle with Indian farmers it sued over potatoes for Lays chips
• Trump furiously denies claims that the US is increasing cyber attacks on Russia and that he has not been told because Pentagon officials fear he might cancel the operation
• This man ate ‘expired’ food for a year. Here’s why expiration dates are practically meaningless.
• I’m a 29-Year-Old With $235k in Student Debt. I’ll Never Pay It Back.
• Here’s What the Average Worker Has Saved in a 401(k)
• Facebook’s digital currency could trigger new D.C. battles
• The Oil Price Risk Analysts Are Ignoring
• U.S. Shale Growth Is Decelerating
• A Major Existential Threat Is Arising For Natural Gas
• Replacing Plastic: Can Bacteria Help Us Break The Habit?

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• Inside Sudan’s Internet ban, brutal clampdown on protesters, and sexual violence
• Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish
• Trump warns of a ‘market crash the likes of which has not been seen before’ if he loses 2020 election — but economists are worried he’s causing a recession on his own
• Leaderless and livid: The youngsters on Hong Kong front lines
• Hong Kong’s surveillance-savvy protesters go digitally dark
• California could become first to limit facial recognition technology; police aren’t happy
• The Empty Storefront Crisis and the End of the American Dream
• The “Launch on Warning” Nuclear Strategy and Its Insider Critics
• Revenge of the Bacteria: Why We’re Losing the War
• U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid
• Massive power outage hits Argentina, Uruguay: power companies
• Nestlé is still taking national forest water for its Arrowhead label, with feds’ help
• Rain leaves veggie farmers struggling with no aid in sight
• France to declare natural disaster after storms rip through crops
• Forget soybeans, U.S. farmers rush to plant hemp
• Where does your plastic go? Global investigation reveals America’s dirty secret

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• Many Americans say their financial situation is worse since the Great Recession
• Trump Has Gotten China to Lower Its Tariffs. Just Toward Everyone Else.
• Awakening to the Traumacene
• When Social Security Runs Out: What the Program Will Look Like in 2035
• How the FCC lost a year in “the race to 5G”
• Blood Types May Soon Be Indifferent As Scientists Use Our Gut Bacteria to Make ‘Universal’ Blood Type
• Meanwhile, over on Planet Japan
• The diet that’s shrinking your brain
• The Worst Patients In The World
• Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert
• Largest Animal Epidemic in History Is Due to Industrial Farming
• Oil price drop would dampen the offshore rebound
• Biblical plague of locusts is swarming over Italian farmlands. Could it happen in the US?
• AccuWeather’s new analysis predicts substantial 2019 crop yield shortfall

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