Category Archives: Daily Digest

• China’s answer to the Nasdaq just had a crazy first day. Stocks gained 140%
• Forget the Fed — stock-market investors brace for Dow’s busiest week of earnings
• China’s new tech-focused stock market soars in opening
• Boris Johnson wins race to be Tory leader and PM
• China to open up finance sector to more foreign investment in 2020, one year earlier than planned
• Mnuchin: Markets shouldn’t be concerned about the debt ceiling
• Lockheed Martin gets $22.5M contract for Aegis upgrades
• If You’re Using These Browser Extensions Uninstall Them ASAP, They’re Stealing Your Data
• Goldfinger, Silver and Gold
• Equifax to Pay at Least $650 Million in Largest-Ever Data Breach Settlement
• Four Republican lawmakers ask Trump to move forward with $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract
• Daimler and Bosch inch closer to fully automated, self-driving valet service
• Dr. Drew: Los Angeles Faces Imminent Outbreak of Bubonic Plague
• Tensions rise in the world’s most strategic oil chokepoint
• Most Important Message Ever
• China’s Beef Imports Hit Record as Deadly Swine Fever Spreads
• Icelandic memorial warns future: ‘Only you know if we saved glaciers’
• Rainforest on Fire: In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a Showdown Over Amazon Rainforest

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• Warren warns of ‘coming economic crash’
• Berkshire Hathaway Stock Is Lagging the Market, and a Giant Pension Fund Just Slashed Its Stake
• Stockman on Debt Crisis: ‘We’re Going to Have 80 Million People Retire Within a Decade’
• Mnuchin urges Congress to quickly pass new debt limit
• ‘Canary in the coal mine’: Singapore woes ring trade alarm bells
• South Korea: Japan’s export restrictions could have ‘dire consequences’ for global economy
• Iranian coastguard’s radio exchange with UK warship emerges
• The biggest bull market ever — yet disaster looms for millions of retirees
• CBS goes dark for 6.5M customers as contract talks with AT&T break down
• Tens of thousands march again in huge Hong Kong anti-government rally
• US Stock Market: Direction Hinges Upon Whether Investors Keep 50bps Rate Cut Hopes Alive
• Senior doctors call for crackdown on home genetic testing kits
• The 1 Reason You Shouldn’t Save for Retirement
• A Bank With $49 Trillion In Derivatives Exposure Is Melting Down Before Our Eyes
• A major Wall Street analyst recently suggested that Tesla is ‘strategically undervalued,’ but is that true?
• Chevron Says Attempt to Seal Off Well May Have Triggered Big Kern County Oil Spill
• Farmers celebrate proposed changes to nation’s migrant farmworker program
• 1,300 firefighters battle Portugal wildfires
• Disaster Co. Farmers Work To “Get Cover Crops Planted” For MFP Aid

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• Why foreign buyers are fleeing the U.S. housing market
• Will tension in the Gulf spiral out of control?
• Elon Musk is making implants to link the brain with a smartphone
• Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You.
• The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
• Brexit funder Arron Banks threatens Netflix over Great Hack documentary
• We Went to the Moon. Why Can’t We Solve Climate Change?
• How Two Big Earthquakes Triggered 16,000 More in Southern California

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• How A 10-Year-Old-Boy Helped Apollo 11 Return To Earth
• SunTrust to stop financing private prisons and immigrant-detention centers
• Woman was so excited she beat cancer that she broke the ‘cancer-free’ bell
• The House Just Voted to Raise the Minimum Wage to $15
• Why this man became a hermit at 20
• Scotland Is Now Generating So Much Wind Energy, It Could Power Two Scotlands
• Device could bring both solar power and clean water to millions
• Brand New Material Could Lead To Cheaper Solar Cells
• ‘We won’: Environmental activists claim victory after Detroit incinerator closes

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• Secret locations of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe accidentally included in report from NATO parliament
• Could A Deutsche Bank Collapse Crash The Markets?
• Washington rips Silicon Valley, but don’t expect much action
• What the Superhuman Controversy Reveals About the Shifting Ethics of Software
• Insanity: Now even junk bonds have negative yields
• Foreign Buying of U.S. Homes Suffers Record Drop
• House passes amendment ordering Pentagon to review whether U.S. experimented with weaponizing ticks
• Lithuanian genome: does it differ from other Europeans
• Bowling Alone: How Washington Has Helped Destroy American Civil Society and Family Life
• India’s Solution To A 100% Surge In Energy Demand
• Trump Administration Proposes New Agriculture Immigration Rules

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• SoCal cities are spending big instead of preparing for next economic downturn
• China’s Debt Ratio Is Growing as Its Economy Loses Steam
• Global Debt Quickened in First Quarter, Outpacing World Economy
• WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019
• ‘We are in a currency war, but nobody has admitted it,’ strategist says
• Central Bankers Are Sick of Rescuing the World Economy Alone
• Japan’s REIT prices hit 12-year high amid global scramble for yield
• EM Succumbs to Sub-Zero Epidemic as Debt Pile Doubles in a Week
• VW says it needs to convince battery suppliers to invest in EVs
• Effects of battery manufacturing on electric vehicle life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions
• Batteries can be part of the fight against climate change – if we do these five things
• U.S. Sees Rare Fall In Energy-Related CO2 Emissions In 2019
• China’s Carbon Emissions Surged 53.5% In 10-Years Time
• Monsanto Monopoly Results In Our Favorite Foods Tainted With Roundup Poison

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• WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019
• Fed’s Williams calls for urgent replacement of Libor
• Disney heiress Abigail Disney says she was ‘livid’ about worker conditions at theme park after going undercover
• Citigroup and Other Banks Are Buying Back Their Stocks and That’s Good for Earnings
• Inside The Battle For the Next Global Monetary System – Facebook Libra vs Central Banks
• Records Show Medicare Advantage Plans Overbill Taxpayers By Billions Annually
• Congress courageously sticks US taxpayers with a $6 trillion liability
• Goldman Sachs earnings blow past Wall Street on strong investment banking, trading results
• At least 2,500 truck drivers have lost their jobs in 2019 as the transportation ‘bloodbath’ unfolds — here’s the full list of bankrupt trucking companies
• Living in California Is Living on the Edge
• Shale Investors Fear Bloodbath As Earnings Season Kicks Off
• Tesla drops ‘Standard Range’ Model S and Model X, lowers prices of ‘Long Range’ variants and Model 3

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• Power restored after NYC transformer fire causes blackout in part of Manhattan, officials say
• IMF releases $5.4 bn loan tranche to Argentina
• Artificial Intelligence Deals Tracker: ~7K Deals Across 20 Industries In One Heatmap
• UK says sending second warship to Gulf
• France’s Macron announces creation of a new space force command
• A small glass of juice or soda a day is linked to increased risk of cancer, study finds
• French inventor soars above Champs-Élysées on flyboard at Paris parade
• Armed 69-year-old ‘antifascist’ shot dead after firebombing immigration centre
• Can Alzheimer’s be stopped? Five lifestyle behaviors are key, new research suggests
• They’re Running Toward the Fire
• Climate change has likely already affected global food production

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• A Stock Market Dying to Know What Powell Knows About the Economy
• The Black Hole Engulfing the World’s Bond Markets
• Revealed: This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops
• US government is running out of money faster than expected, Mnuchin warns
• Did Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Work for Mossad?
• Inspiration, Attitude, and Funeral Jokes
• On Fatherhood, Procreation, and the Lure of Great Cleavage
• Laffer Gets Laughable
• Oil Slips Despite Major Gulf Of Mexico Production Outage
• Opinion: Rivers Of Blood, Black Snow — What Rich Men Did To My Russian Hometown

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• Bank of America cuts business ties with detention centers, private prisons
• We’re told that too much screen time hurts our kids. Where’s the evidence?
• Tenants Won This Round
• Illinois is expunging marijuana convictions from nearly 800,000 criminal records
• I Found My American Dream at the Public Library
• After 6-Year Battle, Florida Couple Wins The Right To Plant Veggies In Front Yard
• Plenty Unveils Its Largest, Most Efficient Farm Yet
• Vertical farm Plenty races against the sun

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