Category Archives: Daily Digest

• Prosecutors Usually Send People to Prison. These Are Getting Them Out.
• Hunger, war and an American dream: One man’s story of overcoming the odds to survive
• The Wisdom Your Body Knows
• Paper sculptures of microorganisms
• One Thing You Can Do: Sustainable Holiday Shopping
• Recycling isn’t working – here are 15 ways to shrink your plastic footprint
• Enjoy a Plastic Free Christmas This Year – Here’s How
• What Survives a Drought?

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• Dallas Fed president believes ballooning debt could suddenly become a big issue for economy
• ‘Cheap’ End-of-Year Funding Fuels Demand for Fed Repo Operation
• Fed economists warn of ‘economic ruin’ if Modern Monetary Theory policies are ever adopted
• Brazil real hits record low, central bank intervenes to ease pressure
• Argentina 2019 inflation seen at 55%, Treasury minister says
• Yield-crazed investors pile into US subprime car loans
• Westpac is now the main banking horror story and its financial pain is yet to come
• Australia Talks: The most and least trusted professions revealed
• Gold and the Lender of Last Resort
• NYC wants a chief algorithm officer to counter bias, build transparency
• The great American labor paradox: Plentiful jobs, most of them bad
• U.S. Energy Emissions Rise For The First Time In Half A Decade
• Farmers are still managing to harvest crops in drought. Here’s how they’re doing it
• Study: Less Tillage And More Surface Residue Doesn’t Crimp Yields
• UN: The world has backed itself into a treacherous corner on climate change

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• El Mencho’s American Empire: Mexican drug lord’s super cartel infiltrates U.S. small towns
• ‘Chilling’: Singapore’s ‘fake news’ law comes into effect
• UK General Election forecast – update
• The Dutch Are Waking Up to Discover They Live in a ‘Narco State’
• Bloomberg Bought Virginia Legislators Introduce Confiscatory Gun Ban
• Putin’s Push For Energy Dominance In Latin America
• Retire early… to save the planet?
• Carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere reaches record high, researchers say

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• The $4 trillion force propelling US stocks to record highs
• U.S. Resumes Large-Scale Operations Against ISIS in Northern Syria
• The world’s best pension system is being pushed to the brink
• Minimum wage doesn’t cover the rent anywhere in the U.S.
• Frontline Thoughts: Muddling For Solutions
• Separated by Design: Why Affordable Housing Is Built in Areas With High Crime, Few Jobs and Struggling Schools
• Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time
• In Virginia, and elsewhere, gun supporters prepare to defy new laws
• The Costly, Life-Disrupting Consequences of Poor Diabetes Care
• 82 Days Underwater: The Tide Is High, but They’re Holding On
• Lies, damn lies and climate statistics

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• Sacramento sheriff attacks McClatchy, as company’s pension and debt burdens pile up
• Schwab Nears Deal to Buy TD Ameritrade
• The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun
• Trump said Hong Kong would be ‘obliterated’ without him
• Over 80% of adolescents worldwide don’t get enough exercise, putting health at risk: Study
• 150 years of bank credit expansion is near its end
• OK Boomer, Who’s Going to Buy Your 21 Million Homes?
• Charges of Ukrainian Meddling? A Russian Operation, U.S. Intelligence Says
• LA Has More Vacant Homes Than Homeless People, Report Finds
• The BadDaddy Manifesto
• The Z Man: Another Trip Around The Sun
• Billionaire Fracking Brothers Hammered by Permian Holdings
• Tesla reveals Cybertruck, but breaks its ‘unbreakable’ windows during unveiling
• At Least 14 levees broke in Fukushima Prefecture

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• The Kim Foxx Effect: How Prosecutions Have Changed in Cook County
• Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches Of Travelers’ Phones And Laptops Unconstitutional
• Golden 1 Credit Union gives $20 million in ‘surprise deposits’ to its members
• Woman Desperately Chugging Coffee Becomes Impeachment Hearing Hero
• Watch Bees Surf to Safety on Waves They Create
• The Secret to Enjoying a Long Winter
• 3 nutritionists (who are also moms) share how they get their teens to eat healthier
• New Arizona Development Bans Residents From Bringing Cars
• Scientists Uncovered 143 More Huge Ancient Drawings In Peru
• Irwin Family Opens Elephant Hospital Fulfilling One of Steve’s Dreams
• How a Guatemalan Town Tackled Its Plastic Problem

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• Wall Street is getting very bullish as stocks hit records. Here’s why that’s worrisome
• Dalio: We Are Heading Into a ‘New World Order’
• Boomers Are Thriving on an ‘Unprecedented’ $9 Trillion Inheritance
• Trump’s Pardons for Servicemen Raise Fears That Laws of War Are History
• Trump wants South Korea to pay more for defense. He shouldn’t stop there
• Two jail guards for Jeffrey Epstein charged with cover-up in his suicide
• Understanding the Repo Crisis
• Competition in retail has become a zero-sum game: Morning Brief
• ‘Polite’ robots and underground tunnels: JD’s vision for future smart cities
• Gold Stocks Now?
• China bought most of Greece’s main port and now it wants to make it the biggest in Europe
• Fracking Under Fire In California
• Re-greening: can Louisville plant its way out of a heat emergency?

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• Illinois Pension Costs Skyrocketed By 500%, Crowding Out Government Services
• For municipal defaults, booms are just as dangerous as busts
• Illinois Cellphone Taxes Are Highest In Nation, Average $374 a Year
• Fed’s Williams: Risks to U.S. economy still to the downside
• Zero Real Yields Are Tripping Up Investors
• China central bank governor says will step up credit support to economy
• The ‘internet as we know it’ is off in Iran. Here’s why this shutdown is different
• Iran: More than 100 protesters believed to be killed as top officials give green light to crush protests
• Oil Sinks As Trade War Sentiment Turns Sour
• Dan Murphy: Farm Payment Failure
• Agriculture, the Millennial Side Hustle: The Story of ‘Telephone Farmers’

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• The Changing Of The Overlords
• A Spy Complex Revealed
• Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements
• Bid by Netanyahu’s rival to form a new Israeli government enters final, fraught stretch
• 10 Lithium Stocks to Buy Despite the Market’s Irrationality
• Inside Purdue Pharma’s Media Playbook: How It Planted the Opioid “Anti-Story”
• Homeless services in Alaska face uncertain future as state cuts back
• Does Trump Have a Bunch of ‘Losers’ to Thank for a Growing Economy?
• The Worst Is Over For Oil Markets
• Brazil Amazon deforestation soars to 11-year high under Bolsonaro

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• ‘We can’t take it anymore’: As Lebanon economy skids, jobs in firing line
• 70% of Americans say they are struggling financially
• Trump ignores Pentagon advice and intervenes in military war crimes cases
• Hong Kong protesters confront police to try to free campus allies
• ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims
• Amazon rolls out ‘Amazon Pharmacy’ branding to PillPack
• Egon von Greyerz: Unprecedented Risk – Are You 50% Gold
• Food shortages cripple Bolivia, new elections still uncertain
• San Francisco And NYC Begin To See The Ugly Side Of Socialism
• YouTube says it will crack down on recommending conspiracy videos
• Exclusive: Haiti’s president warns of humanitarian crisis, calls for support
• Cybercrime Booms As Scammers Hack Human Nature To Steal Billions
• Oh that it should come to this, part 15 – The Earth War
• China Reports 3 Cases Of The Most Dangerous Type Of Plague
• The world’s most valuable company: Saudi Arabia puts $1.7 trillion price tag on its oil monopoly
• Venice hit by record third exceptional tide in one week
• Greens Senate bid to overturn GMO regulation fails

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