Category Archives: Daily Digest

• 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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• Robocall revenge: Meet the techies turning the tables on scammers
• Despite Being Homeless and Illiterate as a Teen, Man Now Makes Thousands Creating ‘Backyard Beaches’
• More researchers report promising Alzheimer’s vaccine results in mice
• I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer
• Europe’s tiniest states square off in the Olympic mini-games
• Antennas of flexible nanotube films an alternative for electronics
• The benefits of drinking herbal tea
• Largest Ever Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Takes Flight – and Airlines Are Already Expressing Interest
• Two hours a week is key dose of nature for health and wellbeing
• Most ‘meat’ in 2040 will not come from dead animals, says report

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• China extradition clashes plunge Hong Kong into historic violence
• Trump to announce US troop increase in Poland
• This Is One Of The Worst Risk/Reward Setups In History
• Seniors were sold a risk-free retirement with reverse mortgages. Now they face foreclosure.
• Jon Stewart chokes up, gives angry speech to Congress
• Red Pill Realities
• Sign the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space
• Are McMansions Making People Any Happier?
• 400 arrested at Moscow police abuse march: monitor
• Ebola outbreak enters ‘truly frightening phase’ as it turns deadly in Uganda
• Facebook debuts US blood donation tool, its latest public health move
• If Gold Was Just a Barbarous Relic…
• U.S. Gasoline Prices Set To Drop As Driving Season Begins
• How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
• Cheerios, Nature Valley cereals contain Roundup ingredient, study finds

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• A $45 billion public works plan and what does Illinois get? Deeper in debt.
• China Expands Use of Local Government Debt in Stimulus Push
• Oil Drops Below $54 as Global Recession, Supply Concerns Mount
• Germany Gets a Recession Warning as Investor Confidence Plunges
• Bond Markets Rally as Investors Price In Monetary Easing
• Swiss National Bank to hold interest rates until at least 2021: Reuters poll
• Photos Of Travelers Coming In And Out Of The US Have Been Hacked And Stolen
• Rare Noctilucent Clouds, Earth’s Highest Clouds, Spotted in the Northern U.S. Over the Weekend

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• Life And Debt: Stories From Inside America’s GoFundMe Health Care System
• The Groups Where Thousands of Facebook Users Ask for Money
• The Nordic Secret
• Patients whose blood pressure only spikes at the doctor’s office are twice as likely to die of a heart attack or other cardiac event
• Cisco Makes Networks Smarter With Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
• How the Left Embraced Globalization
• New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe
• The Tyranny Of TAPS – Hunting Down ‘Future Threats’
• Oh that it should come to this Pt. 8
• Gasoline Prices Set to Plunge at the Pump
• OPEC’s Struggle To Avoid $40 Oil
• Promising Compelling Electric Cars Is Easy, Building Them Is Hard — Audi e-tron & Jaguar I-PACE Recalls
• How Dengue, a Deadly Mosquito-Borne Disease, Could Spread in a Warming World
• Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics
• Scientists discover unlikely culprit for fertilizing North Pacific Ocean: Asian dust

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• Weak US Employment Report Raises Red Flag on Economy
• Hong Kong March: Vast Protest of Extradition Bill Shows Fear of Eroding Freedoms
• FDA and FTC Hit Vape Companies With Warnings Over Influencer Posts on Social Media
• Trump Defends ‘Beautiful’ Tariffs as a Negotiating Tactic
• Why You May Be Less Prepared for Retirement Than You Think
• How much does lithium cost? The industry can’t seem to agree
• The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
• How Safe Is Sunscreen?

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• From Beds to Beads to Bracelets, It’s Bad Out There in Retail
• One-third of Americans say they need a side gig to pay expenses
• How Can I Estimate the Income I’ll Need in Retirement?
• As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines
• Prominent investigative journalist detained in Russia
• US, Russia blame each other as ships nearly collide in Asia
• Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose
• Paul Craig Roberts: “That America” Is Gone
• Save your kids from the busted fate of the Millennials
• Refugees and Migrants From Venezuela top Four Million: IOM and UNHCR
• Sun’s 11-Year Cycle –“Powered By Tidal Forces of Venus, Earth, Jupiter”
• A ‘Gusher Of Red Ink’ For U.S. Shale
• Frogs are dying off at record rates — an ominous sign the 6th mass extinction is hitting one group of creatures hardest
• Oops! Glacier National Park quietly removed a visitor center sign saying its iconic glaciers will disappear by 2020 due to climate change.

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