Category Archives: Daily Digest

• Cook County Home Values Down 31%, Property Taxes Up 22% Since 2007
• 10-Year Notes at Negative Coupons Hit Covered-Bond Market
• Number of pensioned public retirees in California’s $100K Club skyrockets
• More people filed for bankruptcy per capita in these 5 states in July — and there was a 5% increase nationwide
• Student Debt Has Gotten So Bad That People Are Fleeing the Country to Avoid It
• Is the ‘everything bubble’ finally popping? This chart might have the answer
• Gold Prices Hit All-Time Highs In These Currencies
• Australia looks to access US fuel reserves to shore up supplies amid Persian Gulf tensions
• Fourth Turning Economics Pt 2
• World Economy Edges Closer to a Recession as Trade Dread Deepens
• California’s largest recycling business closes, 750 laid off
• Domino’s is stockpiling pizza ingredients to protect against a disorderly Brexit
• Timber can be more sustainable than other building materials, but it comes with some caveats
• Victorian councils sending thousands of tonnes of recyclables to landfill as waste crisis deepens

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• Uproar as India abolishes Kashmir’s special autonomy
• USA Today owner Gannett merges with GateHouse Media to form massive newspaper company
• India signs USD700 million deal with Russia for 1,000 additional air-to-air missiles
• The Invention Of Money
• The Fatal Flaw in How We Organize
• Fourth Turning Economics
• Hold the Teddy Bears and Candles
• ‘Urgent Resolve’ to Fight Domestic Terrorism Faces Tall Legal Obstacles
• Political blame for mass shootings is not a solution
• Lack of USAF tanker, airlift capacity causes concern over potential conflict in Pacific
• Oil Needs To Be Below $20 To Compete With Electric Cars
• Ecological land grab: food vs fuel vs forests
• Quarter of world’s population facing extreme water stress

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• Hong Kong police fire tear gas as city is again roiled by protests
• Perfect summer storm brewing for stock correction as trade war simmers and more Fed action awaited
• Dow plunges 600 points after China devalues its currency
• The superrich are selling stocks, buying properties and keeping cash ready
• Jim Grant: The Trouble With Modern Monetary Theory
• Russian police detain over 800 in opposition crackdown in Moscow
• Every Step You Take
• Growing panic in Kashmir as India, Pakistan bicker over border clashes
• Scientists unveil the first-ever image of quantum entanglement
• The Metadata Trap
• Third Mexican journalist killed in a week amid record murder rate
• 8chan: Another Mass Shooting, Another Internet Purge
• The Inslaw Octopus
• Fears of ‘Chernobyl on ice’ as Russia prepares floating nuclear plant
• US Northwest towns ‘woefully unprepared’ as fire risk grows
• More homes evacuated as new storms threaten collapsing UK dam
• Humanity’s next test: feed 10 billion without ruining Earth
• Sharp rise in Brazilian deforestation undeniable, says sacked research chief

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• Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class
• Brazil clinches designation as ‘major non-NATO ally’ to U.S.
• Free-spending consumers lift company profits, but Trump tariffs now loom
• U.S. Ends Cold War Missile Treaty, With Aim of Countering China
• Wild Imagination
• WSJ: US Farmers Filing For Bankruptcy At Levels Not Seen Since Great Recession
• The Colorado Rapids casually let everyone know that the plague still exists in 2019
• S&P 500 Posts Its Worst Week Of 2019 As Trade Tensions Flare
• Silver Prices – The Next Five Years
• Researchers create human-monkey chimeras in China
• Epstein reportedly hoped to develop super-race of humans with his DNA
• Hepatitis A is spreading through poop on the streets. Philly is betting public bathrooms can stem the outbreak.
• Why Oil Prices Plunged Today
• How Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis
• Walloped by heat wave, Greenland sees massive ice melt
• Is Greenland gaining or losing ice?
• What’s happening to Greenland’s ice?
• Google’s extravagant climate change Camp mocked as party for ‘entitled fools’
• French farmers dump manure outside office of Macron party lawmaker

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• NYC jail admissions down almost 50% since 2014 in major achievement for criminal justice reform
• Mathematical model identifies acoustic signal preceding seismic shake
• First US National Park to Offer Heavy-Duty Wheelchairs for Disabled Visitors to Enjoy the Scenery
• Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in 12 hours
• As India’s tiger numbers rise, Modi has gone on safari with Bear Grylls

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• Trump says he will seek U.S. trade accord with Brazil
• Stock buybacks are reaching dangerous levels
• Sign of the times: China’s capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols taken down
• New protest erupts as Hong Kong charges 44 activists with rioting
• Trump administration to reduce length of opioid prescriptions for federal employees
• Looking for work? Your next job interview might just come by text message
• The Body Trade: Cashing In On Donated Dead
• 1-year-old daughter of Congo man who died of Ebola has virus
• World’s Newest Offshore Oil Boom Struck By Political Turmoil
• North Korea launches two short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea says
• All spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. will soon end up in one place
• 37 people injured from explosion at ExxonMobil plant in Baytown; shelter-in-place lifted
• Secret Russian Nuclear Accident Caused a Huge Radiation Cloud to Blanket Europe, Scientists Claim
• Mekong River at its lowest in 100 years, threatening food supply

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• A Fed Reversal Will Store Up Trouble
• Companies are ramping up share buybacks, and they’re increasingly using debt to do so
• Federal Borrowing Soars as Deficit Fear Fades
• The Undeclared Currency War: How the ECB Is Forcing the Fed’s Hand
• Markets Get Ready for the Great Unknown
• Negative Interest Rates: Someday The Bank May Pay You For Your Mortgage
• Asset Bubbles to Zombie Companies: The Dark Side of Rate Cuts
• Watch out, America: China and Russia are stockpiling gold
• Milton Friedman: The Forgotten History of the Godfather of Conservative Libertarianism
• YouTube needs ‘new set of rules and laws’: executive
• Pfizer to combine off-patent drug business with Mylan
• Cambodia buying ‘tens of thousands’ of Chinese weapons: PM
• 3 Things to Watch as Summer Heat Bakes the Arctic
• Farmers struggle to find hay for animals as wet spring creates shortage

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• Stocks close higher, S&P 500 hits 3,000 for the first time as Fed chief signals rate cut ahead
• Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology Through Venture Capital Arm
• Raytheon, DARPA complete design review for hypersonic weapon
• Is an aging population actually bad for the economy?
• The House Passes Budget Deal to Increase Military Spending
• Dialysis Firm Cancels $524,600.17 Medical Bill After Journalists Investigate
• Rich investors may have let a hospital go bankrupt. Now, they could profit from the land
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond review – what if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?
• Tulsi Gabbard Calls for Americans to Unite Against Big Tech
• Trump aide submitted drafts of 2016 ‘America First’ energy speech to UAE for edits, emails show
• A 26-year-old billionaire is building virtual border walls — and the federal government is buying
• Brazil’s indigenous people: Miners kill one in invasion of protected reserve

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• Moscow Police Arrest More Than 1,300 at Election Protest
• Aleksei Navalny, Putin Foe, Is Hospitalized After ‘Severe Allergic Reaction’ in Jail
• Sports and IQ: the persistence of race ‘science’ in competition
• Coren: Protesters were peaceful, then riot police charged
• Trump Dollar Declarations Show U.S. Currency Move Still in Play
• Israel launches race to build 5G mobile networks
• Whatever happened to the Palestinian 3G deal?
• A deadly mosquito-borne virus that causes brain swelling in humans has been detected in Florida
• The new political story that could change everything
• Swarms of grasshoppers invade Las Vegas: “Everybody was going crazy”
• This floating city concept is one way to cope with climate change
• Do airplane contrails add to climate change? Yes, and the problem is about to get worse.
• Robots come to the rescue after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• “I’m not a climate change guy, but…”: Farmers reckon with new reality in the heartland
• Under Brazil’s Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall
• Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project”

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• China-US Trade War: Japan G20 Déjà vu?
• Armed robbers steal at least $30 million of gold and precious metals in Sao Paulo airport heist
• Did Trump’s ‘Plan B’ For Iran Just Fail?
• Flags of inconvenience: noose tightens around Iranian shipping
• Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google for Censorship of Ads
• F.I.R.E. – Ignited By The Bull, Extinguished By The Bear
• Trump says U.S. could tax French wine in retaliation for digital tax
• Inflation Ghosts: Past, Present & Future
• NASA has revealed Orion, and its Artemis moon mission has never been closer
• Rare brain-eating amoeba kills swimmer days after visit to Fantasy Lake water park in Hope Mills
• U.S. tax collectors urge owners of virtual currencies to pay back taxes, file amended returns
• Biosynthesis of cannflavins A and B from Cannabis sativa L
• With Congress limiting what can be dumped at nuke sites, the energy department may just redefine what it’s dumping
• Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days
• Europe heat wave: Temperatures hit 109 degrees in Paris “urban heat island”
• Heat, then hail: Weather and travel woes hit Britain, France

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