Category Archives: Daily Digest

• Upbeat data suggest U.S. economy still on moderate growth path
• Beijing Daxing International Airport: China’s new mega-airport ready to open
• Trump Announces New Sanctions on Iran
• Walgreens to test drone delivery service with Alphabet’s Wing
• False Tsunami Warning In Hawaii Triggered By Police Exercise
• Second Pacific nation in a week ditches Taiwan for Beijing
• Video: Argentine lawmakers approve emergency food bill amid economic crisis
• Interior Dept. Transfers 560 Acres of Public Lands to Army for Border Bollard Fence
• China Just Got Handed The Oil Deal Of A Lifetime
• U.S., Canada have lost 3 billion birds since 1970. Scientists say ‘nature is unraveling.’
• Protesting Climate Change, Young People Take to Streets in a Global Strike
• Three Mile Island goes offline

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• Report: More people are supporting nonprofit news sites
• Wearable cyborg uses brainwaves to let people walk again
• How to see the International Space Station fly over the eastern US this week
• A Newly Identified Protein May Be the Key to Vanquishing the Common Cold
• Faced With Criticism, Trump Administration Reverses Abrupt End to Humanitarian Relief
• Woman creates custom dolls to match children’s disabilties
• Pritzker signs new law raising teacher pay minimum to $40,000
• This med student was given last rites before finding a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions
• University of California to dump fossil fuel investments
• Wind And Natural Gas Are Big Winners In US Power Generation
• Rivian unveils first picture of new electric van
• Natural Gas Could Be Replaced Within 15 Years
• Google to invest record-breaking amount in renewable energy
• Explainer: Why Asia’s biggest economies are backing hydrogen fuel cell cars
• Toy company Hasbro to discontinue use of plastic in packaging
• Greta Thunberg Wants You — Yes, You — to Join the Climate Strike

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• FedEx CEO: ‘Whistling past the graveyard’ on the U.S. consumer belies a broader slowdown
• U.S. housing starts, building permits scale 12-year high
• The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance
• Worried about a recession? Here’s 5 ways small businesses can weather a downturn
• ‘This Is Crazy!’: Wall Street Scurries to Protect Itself in Repo Surge
• 200,000 people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
• Here’s why regulators are so worried about Facebook’s digital currency
• Millennials have an average of $28,000 in debt—and the biggest source isn’t student loans
• Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.
• Garments for lease: ‘rental’ apparel brings new wrinkles for retail stores
• Amazon figured out a way for online shoppers to pay in cash
• The Internet Cloud Has a Dirty Secret
• Deep Future
• Retiring At The Zero Bound
• Full Interview: Edward Snowden On Trump, Privacy, And Threats To Democracy
• Successful Retirees ‘No Longer Welcomed’: ‘We Didn’t Leave Connecticut … Connecticut Left Us’
• The Bolsheviks even want to tax your toaster oven…
• SF Restaurant Leaders Sound Alarm on Industry Crisis at City Hall Meeting
• The Journey, Not The Destination
• Trump says California cities ‘destroy themselves’ with homelessness
• US says attack on Saudi oil site was an Iranian ‘act of war’
• Saudi Arabia to restore oil output fully by end of September: energy minister
• Trump revokes waiver for California to set higher auto emissions standards
• Toyota banks on Olympic halo for the humble bus to keep hydrogen dream alive
• Fukushima trial ends in not guilty verdict, but nuclear disaster will haunt Japan for decades to come
• Shocking Video Simulation Shows the Devastation Nuclear War Would Cause

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• Oil shock hits a global economy that’s already on shaky ground
• Repo Market Chaos Signals Fed May Be Losing Control of Rates
• St. Clair County Home Values Down 23%, Property Taxes Up 5% Since Recession (Illinois)
• $53.2 Billion In QE Lite: Fed Concludes First Repo In A Decade Amid Liquidity Panic
• SpaceX’s Next Starship Prototype Taking Shape (Photos)
• IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
• Need a loan? Equifax plans to sell more utility, phone records
• Need Cash? Companies Are Considering Magazine Subscriptions and Phone Bills When Making Loans
• Just last month, 53 Americans died in mass shootings…while 40,000 died from obesity
• Mortgage demand from buyers jumps, just as interest rates spike
• The silenced: meet the climate whistleblowers muzzled by Trump

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• Video: Trump has badly misread China’s hand
• One in Four of New York’s New Luxury Apartments Is Unsold
• The Fight for the Latino Vote in Florida
• Tech IPO injury report: Some of the biggest names in tech have taken a beating after going public this year
• This could ‘end very badly’: Trump officials warn on mortgage finance
• Syria to crack down on profiteers in bid to ease currency crisis
• The rise and fall of Subway, the world’s largest fast-food chain
• Some vapers return to cigarettes amid growing e-cig health crisis
• How 5G will reinvent “working from home”
• Saudi officials considering delaying IPO after drone attack: WSJ
• Kroft: Why have no banking executives been prosecuted?
• JP Morgan traders accused of manipulating price of gold, silver for a DECADE, as DoJ tries to look tough on Wall Street
• Selco: You Know the SHTF Has Started When People Begin Losing Their Guns
• Incentives (And Sociopaths) Rule The World
• The SR-71 Blackbird’s Predecessor Created “Plasma Stealth” By Burning Cesium-Laced Fuel
• Trump Says Iran Appears Responsible for Saudi Attack but That He Wants to Avoid War
• Explosion and fire break out at Russian lab known for housing deadly smallpox virus
• Texas girl dies from brain-eating amoeba she got while swimming in river
• The Truth About Eating Eggs
• Climate Strike N.Y.C.: 1.1 Million Can Skip School for Protest
• As Bering Sea ice melts, Alaskans, scientists and Seattle’s fishing fleet witness changes ‘on a massive scale’

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• Dow Futures Retreat, Global Stocks Fall After Saudi Oil Attacks, Weak China Data
• Attacks on Saudi oil facilities knock out half the kingdom’s supply
• Energy prices spike after Saudi oil attack as US blames Iran
• Saudi oil attack roils global energy markets; Trump says U.S. ‘locked and loaded’
• Attacks on Saudi oil supply effectively wipe out the world’s spare capacity, S&P Platts says
• Trump authorizes release of U.S. oil reserves if needed because of Saudi attacks
• U.S. shale seen unlikely to quickly replace barrels lost in attack on Saudi facilities
• Ex-Google worker fears ‘killer robots’ could cause mass atrocities
• Mexican President Lopez Obrador has transformed the office, but old problems thwart progress
• No Deal: Auto workers strike against GM in contract dispute
• Nearly 50,000 UAW workers go on strike against GM, America’s biggest automaker
• Medicaid’s Dark Secret
• Jim Crow Steals N Carolina 9th CD
• Obesity map of the United States reveals the states where up to 40 per cent of Americans are dangerously overweight
• Exclusive: Turkey’s Erdogan says to discuss with Trump buying U.S. Patriot missiles
• Your Savings Are at Risk in the Cashless World That’s Coming
• This Is What Responsible Gold Mining Will Look Like
• Gold market structure and flows
• The Custodial State
• As shock wears off, mental health concerns grow in Bahamas
• Tullow to drill at least three new Guyana wells in 2020 after second discovery
• Not Just the Bees, First-of-Its-Kind Study Shows Neonics May Be Killing Birds Too

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• Private Equity Tries to Protect Another Profit Center
• Paris commuter chaos as metro workers strike over pension reform
• How does France’s pension system compare?
• Hong Kong exchange vows to press on with $39 billion LSE bid after rebuff
• The California Real Estate Boom Is Over. What Now?
• Publix joins other retailers in asking patrons not to openly carry guns in its stores
• Asian markets move higher on hopes for a cooling trade war
• 5 Reasons To Bet On A China Trade Deal — Not Against The Dow Jones
• Why Can’t I Have This?
• The rich are different from you and me — they live a lot longer
• Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S.
• Huge Blow To US Farmers: China Heads To Argentina For Soy Meal In Landmark Deal
• The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster

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• Post-Gazette newsroom donates Pulitzer monetary award to Tree of Life congregation
• California bans private prisons – including Ice detention centers
• A Swiss house built by robots promises to revolutionize the construction industry
• This Is The Credit Score You Should Actually Be Striving For
• The heartwarming moment a long-distance couple with Down syndrome were reunited after their moms arranged a meeting for the duo who fell in love at a conference
• Hearing aids lower dementia, depression risk for older adults
• In Defense Of Screen Time
• Letter of Recommendation: Golfing With Strangers
• “A labour of love”: Zambia’s accidental tomato farmer
• How to Use Your Credit Card to Help the Environment

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• American Businesses Say China’s Slowdown Is a Greater Threat Than the Trade War
• Watch the chaos unfold as the UK’s parliament is suspended
• Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class
• The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy
• Why buying and selling a house could soon be as simple as trading stocks
• The 9/11 Attacks: Understanding Al-Qaeda and the Domestic Fall-Out from America’s Secret War
• STEM Is Overrated
• The Jeffrey Epstein investigation was more expansive than previously thought, documents show
• Oh that it should come to this Part 12
• Metals and The Big Cons
• DNA company tampered with results, former employees say
• Trump Flirts With $15 Billion Bailout for Iran, Sources Say
• Oil Demand Growth Weakest In Nearly A Decade
• Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy
• A Second Interstellar Object Has Almost Certainly Been Found In Our Solar System
• First human case of West Nile virus reported in Wisconsin

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• ‘Gold is the way to go’ as interest rates fall, says Mark Mobius
• China Has Added Nearly 100 Tons of Gold to Its Reserves
• Chicago’s deficit heralds US pensions crisis
• Corporate Pension Funding Moves Closer to Worrisome 80% Level
• Experts: Illinois pension debt could force cities to cut public safety jobs
• Real US debt levels could be 2,000% of economy, a Wall Street report suggests
• Just two DIET fizzy drinks a day ‘increases your risk of deadly heart attack or stroke by 50%’
• Weakening Shale Productivity “VERY Bullish” For Oil Prices
• Alien civilizations may have explored the galaxy and visited Earth already, a new study says. We just haven’t seen them recently.

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