Category Archives: Daily Digest

• Moody’s: Illinois one of two states unprepared to weather a recession
• QE May Be Over, But the Fed’s U.S. Debt Hoard Is About to Soar
• Is a college degree worth owing thousands in student loans?
• Millennials had been good at staying out of bad credit card debt. Not anymore
• Powell Says Leveraged Lending Isn’t Posing a Crash Threat
• France Goes on Deal Spree, Thanks to ECB Easy Money
• Negative Rates, Designed as a Short-Term Jolt, Have Become an Addiction
• A French cop on why French cops will never join the Yellow Vests
• Thanks To Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever
• None Dare Call It Nonsense
• Another SAT Bombshell: College Board adds “Parental Misfortune Score”

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• Major Shocker: Conservatives Win Australia as Labor’s Climate Agenda Backfires
• Their biggest challenge? Avoiding a recession
• Ford will cut 10 percent of its salaried employees
• Estimated Impacts of Tariffs on the U.S. Economy and Workers (2019)
• Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: GM, Snap, Merck and more
• Ron Paul: Violence Against Women Act Does Violence to the Constitution
• Why You Need A Retirement Plan A, B And C
• A Hegemon Checkmated
• A nationwide tax on soda? Economists say it would be good for the country, and here’s their ‘optimal’ rate.
• Oil Rises But Some Drillers Are Filing For A Second Bankruptcy
• Oil is rallying on supply worries after Trump threatens the ‘official end of Iran’
• Xcel’s new plan: Coal-free by 2030, nuclear until 2040
• Glyphosate effects on earthworms

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• Here are the five worst Dow Jones industrial average performers as trade dispute escalates
• Here’s How Many U.S. Households Will Run Out of Money in Retirement
• Fake Has Become Realer Than Real And The Dogs Of War Are There To Keep It That Way
• ‘Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.’ Millennials Approach Middle Age in Crisis
• Prescription For Violence: The Corresponding Rise of Antidepressants, SSRIs & Mass Shootings
• JP Morgan buys health-care payments firm InstaMed in the bank’s biggest acquisition since the financial crisis
• Austrian government collapses as far right leader caught in video sting
• A Fake Asteroid Headed to Earth Can Really Make You Think
• OPEC: Signs Of A Major Oil Deficit
• Global Oil Shipping Concerns Rise Over Middle East Tensions
• China’s ban on scrap imports a boon to U.S. recycling plants
• E.P.A. Could Get Thousands of Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math

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• Millions of Americans are just one paycheck away from financial disaster
• Fed Officials Sound an Alarm, Worrying Weak Inflation Could Last
• Walmart and Macy’s warn China tariffs mean higher prices for U.S. shoppers
• Silver Supply/Demand Crunch Part II: Primary Silver Producers Stuck in Quicksand and Still Sinking
• US crude rises 1.4% to 2-week high on Middle East tension, settling at $62.87
• Mortgage rates head down for the third week in a row
• Ford recalls more than 270,000 vehicles at risk of rolling away
• The Normalization and Institutionalization of Fraud
• The Physical Oil Market Is Saying We Are About To See The Largest Crude Storage Draw Since 2011
• JPM Warns About “Perfect Storm” American Farm Crisis, Slashes Deere To Sell
• ‘This is a wake-up call’: the villagers who could be Britain’s first climate refugees

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• What’s It Like to Live in Northern California’s First Tiny-Home Community?
• Why Walking is the Key to Being More Productive
• Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen
• Archaeologists find DNA in a 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum
• We froze the salaries of 20 executives – and it improved the lives of 500 employees
• The Week In Wildlife
• No more styrofoam: Igloo is releasing a $10 biodegradable cooler.
• The Sound Of Millions Of Migrating Monarch Butterflies

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• State Department orders non-emergency employees to leave Iraq amid Iran tensions
• German, Dutch military suspend training operations in Iraq amid U.S.-Iran tensions
• Boom in Dodgy Wall Street Deals Points to Market Trouble Ahead
• The media is lying to you about Trump’s China tariffs
• Crazy Not! Much Higher Gold Prices
• Netherlands suspends government mission in Iraq over security threat: ANP agency
• Intel stockpiling 10nm chips, warns that 14nm shortages will continue
• Fourth-largest coal producer in the US files for bankruptcy
• If the Old River Control Structure Fails: A Catastrophe With Global Impact
• The IEA’s Dire Warning For Energy Markets
• Saudi oil facilities attacked, U.S. sees threat in Iraq from Iran-backed forces
• It was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean this weekend as carbon dioxide hit its highest level in human history
• Exxon Predicted 2019’s Ominous CO2 Milestone in 1982
• Trash found littering ocean floor in deepest-ever sub dive

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• Blue Cross (15.6%) and MVP (9.4%) request rate hikes (Vermont)
• Kentucky Retirement Systems asked to reconsider math that made pension costs skyrocket
• Seattle workers pension plan is short by $1.2 billion
• Italian yields spike higher on Salvini threat, lacklustre debt auction
• Lawmaker: ‘No Major Shift’ on Illinois’ Pensions Expected
• Report: New Jersey college students leaving state for lower-cost education
• Social Security is dead broke. Why isn’t anybody talking about it?
• Canadian Bankruptcies Jump At Fastest Pace Since Financial Crisis
• Experts: Mounting Corporate Debt Could Cripple Stocks
• Expect The Announcement
• Police Investigators Determined Officer Choked Eric Garner
• Guaido blasts Venezuela regime after security forces block congress
• Surviving Venezuela
• Ohio town worries about safety after radioactive contamination is found at middle school

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• Trump and Xi to meet after defiant China hits U.S. with new tariffs
• Accused of ‘Terrorism’ for Putting Legal Materials Online
• The Crash In US Economic Fundamentals Is Accelerating
• Supreme Court Rules Against Apple, As Kavanaugh Sides With Liberal Justices
• Emerald Trash Heap
• Saudi oil tankers among those attacked off UAE amid Iran tensions
• LNG Shippers Gear Up For Hurricane Season
• California jury hits Bayer with $2 billion award in Roundup cancer trial
• Toxic algae is getting worse in the Finger Lakes
• Climate Change and the New Age of Extinction

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• ‘It could break a lot of people’: Iowa farmers bear the brunt of Trump’s ‘ugly’ trade war with China
• US deployments across Mideast factor in Iran tensions
• Chris Hughes: It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
• How Drug Companies Helped Shape A Shifting, Biological View Of Mental Illness
• How Much Money Do You Need to Be Wealthy in America?
• United States nuclear forces, 2019
• After the floods: the struggle for survival in a tiny Mississippi town
• 300 Himalayan yaks die of starvation in India’s northeast

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• The Ultimate “Zero Waste” Guide for Beginners
• Central Florida homeless numbers down, new census finds
• New Jersey Is Proving That Bail Reform Works
• For the First Time, Green Power Tops Coal Industry in Energy Production in April
• Scotland’s bottle return scheme deposit to be set at 20p
• Solar installations in US now exceed 2 million and could double by 2023, new figures show
• UK goes a whole week without using coal-fired electricity
• Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth’s climate
• The U.K. Has Officially Declared a Climate ‘Emergency’
• Dem senators launch Environmental Justice Caucus

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