Category Archives: Daily Digest

• 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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• Amid Trade War, Farmers Lean on a New Crop: Hemp
• Trump Orders Cut to National Security Staff After Whistle-Blower
• Will US dollar devaluation be Trump’s next sudden move?
• Drone Reveals Bizarre 4,000-Year-Old ‘Mole Town’ Where People Live Entirely Underground
• In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer
• Without oversight, scores of accused priests commit crimes
• New York City Wants to Put a Climate Change ‘Laboratory’ on Governors Island
• ‘Once they’re gone, they’re gone’: the fight to save the giant sequoia

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• U.S. Jobs Outlook Is So Weak It Echoes Disaster-Hit Months
• Commerce Dept.: U.S. trade deficit has grown by nearly $1B
• Ecuador In State Of Emergency: End Of Fuel Subsidies Sparks Mass Protests
• Trump suspends entry of immigrants who cannot pay for healthcare
• US Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport
• China grants more trademark approvals for Ivanka Trump firm – including voting machines
• Violence escalates in Iraq even after top cleric urges calm
• Haiti braces for more upheaval after big protest
• State’s attorney lists 22 Baltimore police officers as discredited; prosecutors begin wiping out 790 convictions
• The Bahamas Is Using Hurricane Dorian To Push Out Haitian Immigrants, Critics Say
• Scientists use implanted memories to teach baby bird to sing
• A California City Tested Universal Basic Income. Here’s How Recipients Spent the $500 in Free Money
• Consumer stocks take a dive after services sector data disappoints
• Ex-Ukraine prosecutor said he was told to back off probe of Biden-linked firm, files show
• Meet the Florida Duo Helping Giuliani Investigate for Trump in Ukraine
• The Sounds of Silence and Hopium
• REASON Interview: Paul Craig Roberts
• Protesters take to the streets as Hong Kong imposes emergency powers
• For Hong Kong protesters, masks shield against Big Brother
• Hong Kong: Face mask ban prompts thousands to protest
• The Snake-And-Alligator Border Moat: A Budget Analysis
• Western governors: States not consulted on nuclear waste
• Exclusive: Two JPMorgan metals executives put on leave amid U.S. probe – source
• Oil Discoveries Hit 70-Year Low
• Airborne research shows East Coast cities emitting twice as much methane as estimated
• Farmers get ‘negligible’ benefit from insecticide that may kill bees, researchers say

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• College-student voting rate doubled in 2018, analysis says
• Cancer cells stopped by compounds derived from hops
• Hazelnuts improve older adults’ micronutrient levels
• NASA news: An incredible black hole appeared on Jupiter – What is this ‘dramatic image’?
• September snowstorm crashed couple’s big day — but made for epic wedding photos
• A teacher designed glittery hearing aids on dolls to make her deaf students feel represented
• Cars & Coffee group keeps Tesla Supercharger free after mass blocking incident
• Scooter Startup Bird Raises $275 Million In New Funding Round
• The Sunrise Movement Is Building An Army In The Early 2020 States
• 10,000 Farmers And Ranchers Endorse Green New Deal In Letter To Congress
• US Coal Exports to Drop by 10 Million Tons This Year, Over 8 Million More in 2020
• Solar is back with an ETF tracking the sector up more than 50% this year
• Federal judge declines to dismiss Bears Ears lawsuit
• 2019 Fall Foliage Prediction Map

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• Negative interest rates are inflating real estate prices. These cities are at risk of a bubble
• U.S. manufacturing dives to 10-year low as trade tensions weigh
• Dow ends 344 points lower as ISM manufacturing comes in at worst level since financial crisis
• Saudi King’s Bodyguard Is Killed in ‘Personal Dispute’
• The Fed’s “Insurance” Rate Cuts Didn’t Work. Now For The Emergency Cuts
• Rate cuts won’t save the stock market this time, UBS predicts
• Norway Unexpectedly Withdraws Cash From Massive Wealth Fund
• Fighting a Losing Battle: Federal Reserve Prints Another $63.5B This Wee
• Google announces three new ways to hide your personal activity from Google
• 1,015,736,491,184 reasons to have a Plan B
• Inflation Breakevens: A Core Holding
• ATM fees reach a record average of $4.72 per withdrawal, with more coming
• Spies, suicide, and a clash over a bulldozed house — here’s what we know about the scandal rocking Credit Suisse
• New Google Android Warning As Malicious Apps Hit 300 Million Play Store Users
• The Bad Daddy: Better Bedtime Stories
• $15 minimum wage hike is hitting, hurting NYC restaurants
• You can now be fined up to $250,000 if you call someone an ‘illegal alien’ in New York City
• UPS Gets FAA Approval to Run America’s First Drone Delivery Airline
• FDA issues warning on medical devices that are vulnerable to takeover from hackers
• Saudis turn focus to Aramco IPO after restoring output
• The Collapse Might Finally Be Here
• Tesla Gigafactory 3 has major ongoing expansion and new Supercharger station
• More buckets of icy cold energy reality
• Why Your Used Shirts Are Destined for the Dump and Not the Recycling Center
• Trump Ag secretary: No guarantee small farms will survive
• When will the record-challenging heat ease across the South?
• A Guide to Plastic in the Ocean
• GOLDSTEIN: Feds scrapped 100 years of data on climate change
• New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms

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• Student loan debt soars, totaling $1.6 trillion in 2019
• Developed central banks expected to see biggest ‘synchronised easing’ since 2000
• Australia central bank governor tells banks ‘don’t be scared to make loans’
• Down is the only way: Emerging central banks deliver more rate cuts
• Negative interest rates are inflating real estate prices. These cities are at risk of a bubble
• There Is Good Reason to Fear the Repo
• Midwest’s Faltering Economies Will Spread Pain Nationwide
• Dow Jones Turns Lower On Weak ISM Data; Online Brokers Plunge On Schwab News
• US manufacturing survey shows worst reading in a decade
• $300 Oil: What If The Attacks In Saudi Arabia Had Destroyed Production?
• Sacramento gas prices up 25 cents in past week. California costs soar, bucking U.S. trend
• China’s Renewable Boom Hits The Wall
• Food Is Freedom: How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick

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• China Flexes Muscles In Parade Marking 70 Years Of Communist Rule
• Live Updates: Hong Kong Police Shoot Protester, 18, as Demonstrations Turn Violent
• China state media warn US investment curbs will have ‘significant repercussions’
• Democrats’ Plans to Tax Wealth Would Reshape U.S. Economy
• Who pays the most under Bernie Sanders’ ‘inequality tax’ plan
• The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?
• Computers Are Making Huge Mistakes Because They Can’t Understand Chaos, Scientists Warn
• Twitter Executive is Psy-Op Soldier – Middle East Eye
• Here’s why the Forever 21 bankruptcy could be really bad news for US mall owners
• Consumer instant gratification can prove risky
• ‘Out here, it’s just me’: In the medical desert of rural America, one doctor for 11,000 square miles
• What you should know about getting a good night’s sleep, from a company that has analyzed 1 million nights of sleep data
• How a hyperloop may change how and why we travel
• Shale Boom Is Slowing Just When the World Needs Oil Most

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• This upcoming event could turn the market into a ‘minefield,’ says Peter Boockvar
• Yemen’s Houthi rebels release Saudi attack video
• Ron Paul: US interest rates are going negative, and the Fed can’t stop it
• Annual Financial State of the States Report
• Climate Risk in the Housing Market Has Echoes of Subprime Crisis, Study Finds
• Your health insurance costs are about to go up in 2020
• US census data reveals highest foreign-born population share in over a century
• State Department ratchets up Clinton email probe: report
• Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is Being “Framed,” This Document Shows Ukrainian Prosecutor Saying Under Oath He Was Fired For Investigating Hunter Biden
• Spoofing emails: The trickery costing businesses billions
• New blood test capable of detecting multiple types of cancer
• Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada
• There’s plenty of oil supply, says markets pro
• Philanthropists raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for groundbreaking Climate Emergency Fund
• Historic September snowstorm hits Montana as governor declares “winter storm emergency”
• ‘Revolutionary’ pods finding a new purpose for survivors of brutal disaster

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• Income inequality in America is at its highest level in more than 50 years
• Voter support for universal basic income grows: poll
• U.S. Economy Cools on Consumer Spending, Equipment Orders
• Imran Khan warns UN of potential nuclear war in Kashmir
• Military sees frustrating trend as suicides spike
• An honest look at the personal financial crisis
• Imran Khan urges UN to intervene in Kashmir dispute, warning of bloodbath and nuclear war
• China Markets to Test the Risk of Most Extreme U.S. Threat Yet
• Anti-Defamation League adds 36 new symbols to ‘hate’ database
• Financial System Disappearing into Black Hole – Egon von Greyerz
• In California, a ‘surprise’ billing law is protecting patients and angering doctors
• MSM Defends CIA’s “Whistleblower”, Ignores Actual Whistleblowers
• Kunstler: A Dumpster Fire on a Garbage Barge
• Playing with the Facts to Fool the Majority
• The Attack on the Saudi Oil Infrastructure and the Future of Oil Prices
• Occupy Detroit: A Look at 90 Years of Auto Strikes
• ‘What they put on the fields contaminates our water’: Iowa’s pollution problem
• Climate change could trigger droughts in wheat-growing region
• Stomp and squish: Pennsylvanians battle ‘nightmare’ bugs
• First gas station in America to ditch oil for 100% electric vehicle charging opens in Maryland
• Southern drought deepens; 11 million affected
• Tree-cutting ban in Southwest forests hurts heating needs
• EPA tells California it is ‘failing to meet its obligations’ to protect the environment

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