Category Archives: Daily Digest

• 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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• Erdogan says Turkish cenbank chief ousted for refusing rate cuts: report
• Erdogan says Turkey may face problems if central bank not overhauled: Haberturk
• Thousands of Android apps can track your phone — even if you deny permissions
• Saudi airline cancels $6B Boeing order in favor of Airbus. Who’s next?
• 1,250-mile road linking Europe to China given green light
• Jim Rogers Sees Major Market Problems Brewing
• Dead sailors stopped a ‘planetary catastrophe’ aboard a secret submarine, a top Russian naval officer said at their funeral
• Death by Asteroid: The Most Likely Ways for a Space Rock to Kill You
• How This Huge, Superfast Asteroid Stayed Hidden in Near-Earth Orbit
• New York Times has 6250 Ton Cooling System, Tells People it’s Noble to Suffer w/o Air Conditioners
• California earthquake created a massive crack in the Earth visible in satellite images
• Move Over San Andreas: There’s An Ominous New Fault In Town
• How A Grocery Store’s Plan To Shame Customers Into Using Reusable Bags Backfired
• India’s Worsening Drought Is Forcing Doctors to Buy Water for Surgery
• How the raw greed of corporate monopolists has squeezed the farming industry
• Predatory “Green Capitalism” Is Monetizing the Air, and It’s Going to Cost You

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• Chicago Pensions Are No Longer 27% Funded (It’s Now 23%)
• U.S. government could breach debt ceiling by early September: think tank
• Yield gap between risky corporate debt and investment grade sinks to 12-year low
• Italy Racks Up Orders for 50-Year Bonds as Yield Hunters Rush In
• Global Recession Risks Are Up, and Central Banks Aren’t Ready
• ECB Seen Readying the Pumps for Return to Massive Bond Buying
• Negative Yields Creep Into Emerging Europe
• Gigantic Wealth Transfer Coming – Gregory Mannarino
• FBI and ICE use DMV photos as ‘gold mine’ for facial recognition data
• In a scene reminiscent of the financial crisis, axed Deutsche Bank workers leave with belongings
• Study finds that parental ‘memory’ is inherited across generations
• Study: Psychiatric Diagnoses Are ‘Scientifically Meaningless’ In Treating Mental Health
• Share market correction may be imminent for ASX, stockbrokers warn
• Watch: Honey Bees Drop Dead Following California Earthquake
• It Sure Seems Like the Trump Administration Is Suppressing Reports of Climate Change at USGS

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• Deutsche Bank just launched its last, best chance to save itself
• JPMorgan says bond-market rally faces risk of ‘tantrum’ like 2013 and 2016
• I Hear That Train a’Comin’
• FBI and ICE use DMV photos as ‘gold mine’ for facial recognition data
• Weaker growth will offset a Fed rate cut—so sell stocks, warns Morgan Stanley
• Pfizer Looks Pretty Smart With Array BioPharma Purchase. Here’s Why.
• Noncompliance Kneecaps New Zealand’s Gun Control Scheme
• Why Irrational Socialist Schemes Must be Implemented
• How Much Will Healthcare Cost You in Retirement? Try $369,000.
• OPEC: Oil & Gas Are Part Of Solution To Climate Change
• Lithium industry at a crossroad
• Volkswagen finds itself having to pressure battery suppliers to commit to electric cars
• Earth’s Ancient Life Forms Are Awakening After 40,000 Years in Permafrost

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