Category Archives: Daily Digest

• California to launch nation’s first statewide earthquake warning system
• China seeks to boost certified elderly caregivers by 2 million
• 17 things frugal people usually don’t do
• Alabama capital elects first black mayor in 200-year history
• WATCH LIVE: NASA to conduct 1st all-female spacewalk
• New Material Captures Carbon Dioxide and Efficiently Converts It to Useful Organic Materials
• Booze run from behind bars: Inmates escape from Texas federal prison, return with whiskey
• NASA Engineer Proposes Fuelless Engine To Propel Spacecraft ‘Almost At Speed Of Light’
• Hundreds Of Houston Airport Workers To Get Raise, Higher Minimum Wage
• Dog Ownership Associated With Longer Life—Especially Among Heart Attack and Stroke Survivors
• Students Invent Door Handle for Public Bathrooms That Can Clean and Sanitize Itself
• Indian School Educates Students Who Pay Tuition With Plastic Waste Instead of Money (GNN Podcast)
• This startup is saving crops by making ‘super bees’
• Bison Are Finally Roaming These Prairie Lands Again for the First Time in 150 Years
• A swim in the Potomac? The river’s remarkable recovery makes that a possibility, report says.

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• Dow’s 4th-Largest Stock Surges on Earnings
• U.S. pension funds took positions in blacklisted Chinese surveillance company
• Mitch Albom: Price for the NBA in China? Its soul
• A terrible pandemic is killing pigs around the world, and U.S. pork producers fear they could be hit next
• Weak U.S. retail sales cast shadow over slowing economy
• China’s pork prices surged 69.3% in September from a year ago
• The worst news for Joe Biden Tuesday had nothing to do with the debate
• Dutch family ‘waiting for end of time’ found in secret room – BBC News
• A World Without Retirement
• Neighbor blocks San Francisco alleyway with plywood wall to keep out homeless people, drug dealers
• Bank of England boss says global finance is funding 4C temperature rise
• The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
• The Lights Go Out in Cali… and Maybe Not Just There
• Michigan crop yield predictions: Setting all the wrong records in 2019

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• U.S. Inflation Expectations Slip to Record Low in Fed Survey
• Fed’s Bullard Warns of Too-Low Inflation and Risk of Slowdown
• Fed awaits answers on liquidity strains
• IMF warns there is ‘limited ammunition’ to fight recession
• Larry Summers: US economy is just one bad recession away from zero rates or worse
• CPI Report + This 1929 Chart Will Scare You
• Central Bank Issues Stunning Warning: “If The Entire System Collapses, Gold Will Be Needed To Start Over”
• The Lightning Beneath Our Feet
• We’re in a permanent coup
• IRS Data Shows Large Farm Losses
• ‘Insect Armageddon’: Europe reacts to alarming findings about decline in insects
• Plan for blackouts in California to prevent wildfires ‘did not go well’

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• Kurdish forces backed by US strike deal with Syria’s Assad, in major shift in 8-year war
• Is Amazon Unstoppable?
• 5 prominent U.S. companies are most at fault for the earnings recession
• BREAKING: Hunter Biden Stepping Down From Chinese Firm Following Trump Criticism
• Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Hit to Homeowners
• A British family on vacation accidentally drove into the U.S. They’ve spent days detained with their 3-month-old baby.
• California Becomes First U.S. State To Mandate Later School Start Times
• Fur Is Officially Banned in California
• Humans Will Never Live on Another Planet, Nobel Laureate Says. Here’s Why.
• Harley-Davidson pulls plug temporarily on electric motorcycle production
• Californians Learning That Solar Panels Don’t Work in Blackouts
• Here’s why PG&E doesn’t put more power lines underground
• ‘This Is Truly Terrifying’: Scientists Studying Underwater Permafrost Thaw Find Area of the Arctic Ocean ‘Boiling With Methane Bubbles’
• Police ban Extinction Rebellion protests from whole of London

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• Beware of Funny Financials
• The Beginning of the End
• In planning for next U.S. recession, economists say, don’t fret about debt
• Housing market flashing recession signal
• Report: G7 Says ‘Global Stablecoins’ Pose Threat to Financial Stability
• Stocks dip as report China wants more trade talks tempers optimism
• China’s crackdown on sugar smuggling leaves global storage headache
• California Power Shutoffs Highlight Widening Income Gap
• Here’s How The New U.S.-China Trade Talks May End
• Finding Meaning in Quantitative Easing
• More Californians can seek gun removals after Newsom signs new firearm laws
• Armed and Misogynist: How Toxic Masculinity Fuels Mass Shootings
• If It Bleeds It Leads: How the American Media Perpetuates and Profits from Mass Shootings
• NY Times: Violent parody video shown at Trump resort
• Central Bank Issues Stunning Warning: “If The Entire System Collapses, Gold Will Be Needed To Start Over”
• Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters plead for U.S. help
• Abandoned by U.S. in Syria, Kurds Find New Ally in American Foe
• Mack Truck workers begin strike at plants in 3 states
• Why are these L.A. people sleeping in pods stacked on top of each other? It’s not just the cost of housing
• Underestimating Them & Overestimating Us
• Oh that it should come to this Pt. 13
• Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya
• Ken Fisher’s fund reportedly loses $600 million client after offensive comments
• Cubans’ resilience sorely tested as US oil sanctions bite
• ‘Broken system’ starves U.S. oil boom of immigrant workers
• Is fake meat better for you, or the environment?
• Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action
• Melting Ice Redraws the World Map and Starts a Power Struggle

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• Timing of Trump’s Syria decision raises questions
• Israelis see Trump’s Syria pullout as a betrayal that could help unravel the region
• Marie Yovanovitch says Trump ousted her over ‘unfounded and false claims’
• The Unstoppable Allure of Private Assets
• Our Time/Labor Is Finite, But Money Is Infinite
• Ecuador’s protesters march; clashes break out in Quito
• Econimica: How Low Will US Births Go?
• Obesity is weighing on education, productivity and the economy
• Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
• San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless
• Ellen DeGeneres and the American Psychopath
• Wild pigs tearing up Northern California cities, parks
• More Green to be “Green”
• October snowstorm delays hundreds of flights, shuts down highways in central US
• This Is What Adapting to Climate Change Looks Like
• Terrifying footage shows more than 1,000 firefighters battling to contain wildfires in Southern California as 100,000 are forced to flee their homes

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• McConnell, Decried As ‘Moscow Mitch,’ Approves Election Security Money
• Scientists hope to digitally unravel scrolls charred by Vesuvius with light 10 billion times brighter than the sun
• Nine Latin American Countries Have Set Goal for 70% Renewable Energy—More Than Twice the European Union
• New Power Plant Turns Waste into Energy—and Doubles as a Ski Slope and Climbing Wall
• Unilever Vows To Reduce Plastic Packaging Use By 2025
• The 24 Highest Calorie Vegetables for Your Survival Garden
• Paris Has Opened Its First Green Cemetery
• U.S. Contributes to $100 Million Public-Private Partnership to Preserve Wetlands and Waterfowl

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• Turkey launches airstrikes on northern Syria after Trump pulls back U.S. troops
• Reports the US is considering a currency agreement with China as part of partial trade deal
• The Time Georgia & North Carolina Went to War With Each Other
• Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say
• Biden campaign blasts New York Times coverage in letter to executive editor
• The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You
• IRS Issues New Guidance On The Tax Treatment Of Cryptocurrency
• Defense Intelligence Agency analyst charged with leaking classified info to journalists
• This Is Culture
• Bankrupt U.S. Coal Producer Closes Four Mines After Prices Slump
• Power Lines Are Burning the West
• Californians fume over PG&E power outage: ‘A humongous inconvenience’
• The 315-Year-Old Science Experiment
• Photos Reveal Emotional Look Inside the Abandoned Fukushima Exclusion Zone
• Five Radical Climate Policies That Most Americans Actually Like
• Zimbabwe’s capital runs dry as taps cut off for 2M people

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• Harry Dent: Biggest Stock Market Bubble In History Set To Crash
• The father of the yield curve indicator says now is the time to prepare for a recession
• Fed, other regulators approve changes to ‘Volcker rule’ to ease bank restrictions
• A Florida inmate’s secretly recorded film shows the gruesome reality of life in prison
• G.M. Strike’s Economic Toll Is Showing: ‘I Might Lose the Business’
• New biometric system at Dubai airport: No passport or boarding pass needed
• This country just passed the U.S. as the world’s most competitive economy
• Merk U.S. Business Cycle Report – October 2019
• PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor
• Most interesting video discussion about key historical facts
• Serenity Prayer for Central Bankers
• Oops, sorry! Twitter ‘inadvertently’ feeds users’ emails and phone numbers to advertisers
• EIA Sharply Cuts Oil Price Forecast
• Wildfires a massive threat to California’s progress in cutting greenhouse gases, report says
• Blizzard-Like Weather Approaches, Only Half of Corn Is Mature, USDA Says
• Want to know what climate change feels like? Ask an Alaskan.

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• Recession Fears Are Rising, With Surveys Showing Optimism At New Lows
• HSBC to cut up to 10,000 jobs in drive to slash costs: FT
• HSBC Plans To Axe 10,000 Jobs—Bringing The Total To 60,000 Banking Employees Downsized Just This Year
• Hong Kong Stock Exchange Drops Nearly $37 Billion Bid for London Rival
• Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong warn protesters as emergency rules fail to quell unrest
• US to step aside for Turkish assault on Kurds in Syria
• Turkey’s Erdogan warns of military operation in northeast Syria
• Thousands rally in Kiev to protest autonomy plan for eastern Ukraine
• Acted swiftly in PMC Bank case; banking sector is stable: RBI Governor Das
• Chaos in Ecuador from an Expat On the Ground
• Gold falls on China trade deal hopes. What’s next
• General Electric freezing pension plan for 20,000 of its U.S. employees
• Forget Facial Recognition: DHS’s New Database, HART, Also Uses Scars, Tattoos, and Your VOICE to ID You
• Book Review: The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
• California’s Poorest Big City Faces a Different Kind of Housing Crisis
• How Housing Wealth Transferred From Families to Corporations
• China’s Gold-Buying Spree Tops 100 Tons During Trade War
• Gas prices keep soaring across California, passing $4 in Sacramento. Have they peaked?
• UAW says negotiations with GM have ‘taken a turn for the worse’
• North Korea: ‘talks broke down’; State Department: ‘good discussion’
• Trump opening California public land to fracking, gas leases. Is it ‘reckless’?
• Solar Minimum Is Underway, And It’s A Deep One
• To Freeze The Thames: Natural Geo-Engineering and Biodiversity

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