Tag Archives: Economy

• Hong Kong violence prompts reminder that China troops close at hand
• Man set on fire in Hong Kong hours after protester was shot
• Lebanon central bank says bank deposits are safe, banks to review curbs
• Google signs healthcare data and cloud computing deal with Ascension
• Conestoga Huts for the homeless a solution for the Northwest?
• The Case Against Boeing
• Death By Oligarchy
• How The Deep State “Justifies” Itself In America
• The Burning Platform: Stranger In A Strange Land
• “I Survived Communism – Are You Ready For Your Turn?”
• ‘Your vehicle burns a lot of fuel:’ Victoria drivers wake up to angry notes
• Hundreds of schools to be shut down across Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle as New South Wales faces catastrophic bushfire risk
• Regional mayors criticise politicians for failing to link climate change and deadly bushfires
• It’s only October, so what’s with all these bushfires? New research explains it
• Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the Climate
• The Earth could be entering a planetary fire age
• Lest We Ignore
• There’s a hidden consequence of climate change: A deadly virus that’s killing key marine species

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• Two of the world’s biggest economies are at risk of recession
• A $45,000 Loan for a $27,000 Ride: More Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans
• Bolivia’s Morales resigns after protests, lashes out at ‘coup’
• Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency
• The Deutsche Bank Death Watch Has Taken A Very Interesting Turn
• CEO departures hit a new high in October, on pace for a record year
• The collapse of America’s cities into Third World conditions
• Veterans Day: The Forgotten History of America’s Veterans Day and What It Commemorates
• The Right-Wing Smear Artist Behind the Web’s Biggest Blacklist
• Rural police struggle to recruit amid poor pay and public perception
• Daimler to cut 1,100 management positions worldwide, reports say
• The Countries With the Biggest Military Budgets
• US nuclear reactor shut down after officials discover leak
• The Stage Is Set For Oil Price Volatility On November 18th
• Lebanon dollar shortage shuts down gasoline pumps
• Australian state declares emergency, faces ‘catastrophic’ fire danger
• Thousands face life-threatening floods from aging dams
• Rising Sea Levels Will Threaten 200 Million People by 2100

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• China Says Tariffs Will Go, But U.S. Doubts Remain
• Carney’s Green Crypto Currency: Precursor to a Financial Meltdown
• America is facing a pension crisis. Retirees will pay the price if we don’t act now
• Doug Casey: ‘We’re looking at an actual collapse of Western civilization’
• Georgia in top 20 in the US for most overweight residents, report says
• Rural Americans are more likely to die from preventable causes, CDC reports
• Plans for a global Dystopia
• Man lost his house over $8.41 in unpaid property taxes
• As electric vehicles age, here’s how the batteries are finding a second life
• River Of Trash
• Why frackers are using sewage to collect oil and gas
• How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

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• Oklahoma parole board OKs largest-ever US mass commutation
• Americans saving more money for a rainy day
• NFL player Carl Nassib makes millions but sticks to a $3,500 budget for rent, food and bills
• Chicago teachers, students return to class Friday as 15-day strike ends
• GM Strike Ends After Almost 6 Weeks and $2 Billion in Costs
• What the mass resignations at Deadspin tell us about work in America
• ‘On The Backs Of Tortoises’ Challenges Us To Consider How Much Of Life Is Intertwined
• How Deep Sleep May Help The Brain Clear Alzheimer’s Toxins
• A teenager won a $25,000 award for inventing a solution to eliminate blind spots for cars
• NASA astronaut Christina Koch thanks Raleigh city leaders from outer space
• Voyager 2 latest: Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space and makes incredible discovery
• The Renewable Solution To One Of The World’s Dirtiest Industries

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• Chileans debate in the streets in ‘first act of revolution’ to determine their future
• Three Facts You Haven’t Heard Much About Are Keys to Better Policy Toward Central America
• Opinion: Why the prospective $70 billion buyout of Walgreens may signal the stock-market rally is about to end
• Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
• Gold prices at the bottom of their range, down but not out – Analysts
• Gold is the Alpha Currency
• CDC Estimates Millions of Cases of Heart Disease, Other Illness Are Linked to Abuse, Childhood Trauma
• Insomnia in adults linked to heart attack and stroke
• Scientists discover first new HIV strain in nearly two decades
• Oregon senator wants to give small businesses a tax break for hiring the first employee
• Your DNA Profile is Private? A Florida Judge Just Said Otherwise
• Protesters disrupt Las Vegas Council meeting over law banning homeless sleeping on sidewalks
• China Considers Spending Billions On The Aramco IPO
• NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found ‘Super Emitters’
• Italy’s Students Will Get a Lesson in Climate Change. Many Lessons, in Fact.

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• Rising health-care costs stall Americans’ dreams of buying homes, building families and saving for retirement
• California cities, fire districts are being hit hard by CalPERS’ extra levies for ‘unfunded actuarial liability’
• China’s 2020 Crisis: $283 Billion of Maturing Local Debt
• BIG MOMMA? ‘Mother of all bubbles’ could blow up economy in next 2 years – strategist
• Kuroda says Bank of Japan’s extra easing won’t be limited to interest rate cuts
• Researchers used a laser to hack Alexa and other voice assistants
• ABC News Defends Its Epstein Coverage After Leaked Video Of Anchor
• Under shroud of secrecy US weapons arrive in Yemen despite Congressional outrage
• Robinhood glitch is letting users trade with unlimited amounts of borrowed cash
• Mark U.S. Business Cycle Chart Book November 2019
• Trump Vows To Protect Syrian Oil Fields From ISIS
• OPEC Braces For Drastic Drop In Oil Demand
• ‘Climate emergency’: Over 11,000 scientists sound thunderous warning

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• Alarmed by Libra, EU to look into issuing public digital currency: draft
• 7 key races and ballot initiatives to watch in this November’s elections
• Fifteen Asia-Pacific countries agree on trade pact, India holds back
• The unbelievable life and death of Michael C. Ruppert
• The CDC Is Just Telling Us About This Horrifying Lab Accident a Year Later
• The Incredible Shrinking Overton Window
• How you can save tens of thousands of dollars in taxes by moving abroad
• 31% Think U.S. Civil War Likely Soon
• Scramble for propane marks Mother Nature’s latest challenge for U.S. farmers
• A Wave Of Unprofitable Oil Is About To Hit The Market
• JPMorgan Gets Back Into the Electricity Business
• California’s on fire, unplugged and out of easy answers. So why don’t we…?
• More than 100 vegetable products recalled for listeria concerns
• Hundreds of thousands of people in California are downriver of a dam that ‘could fail’
• Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest
• Scientists Have Found There’s a Crucial Change We Can Make to Better Serve Our Planet

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• Wall Street’s leading stocks reveal investor caution
• U.S. Stocks Outpacing the Rest of the World
• Jobs numbers and corporate profits soothe fears of an economic slowdown
• Job Market Resilient In October Despite GM Strike, Beating Expectations
• As companies flee blue cities, middle class workers are hurt
• America’s Military Is Misdirected, Not Underfunded
• As Secret Pentagon Spending Rises, Defense Firms Cash in
• Hospitals Around The World Have A Dire Shortage Of Blood
• Thanks to Trump, the U.S. hasn’t admitted a single refugee since September
• In A Remote Arctic Outpost, Norway Keeps Watch On Russia’s Military Buildup
• Expert: Retiring at 65 is ‘a thing of the past’
• The Truth About Income Inequality
• Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Make Inequality Worse
• The Intellectual We Deserve
• Oil prices rise 2% on U.S.-China hopes and improved outlook
• Give or take a trillion: Investors still in the dark on Saudi Aramco value
• Calif. Governor Seeks To ‘Jumpstart’ PG&E Bankruptcy Talks; Threatens State Takeover
• Maduro Negotiates With Putin The Handover of PDVSA to Russia
• Venezuela ready to hand control of state oil company to Russia’s Rosneft — paper
• Saudi Arabia formally starts IPO of oil firm Saudi Aramco
• Keystone Pipeline leak spills more than 380,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota
• America’s Never-Ending Oil Consumption
• Global Authorities Brace For A Worldwide Protein Shortage As “One-Quarter Of Earth’s Pigs Have Been Wiped Out”
• The cautionary political tale of Iceland’s last McDonald’s burger that simply won’t rot, even after 10 years

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• The 1% grabbed 82% of all wealth created in 2017
• Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
• Capital One customers couldn’t withdraw money for hours during system outage
• The Fed’s Liquidity Response Is Too Little Too Late – But That Was Always The Plan
• How Teenagers Are Using their Quinceañeras to Boost the Latinx Vote in Texas
• Is California Becoming Premodern?
• The California haters are back. And once again, they get us all wrong
• Oh that it should come to this Part 14 – Earth War
• Waymo finally let a reporter ride in a fully driverless car
• Biosludge spread on food crops will soon contain dead human tissue as Washington legalizes “human composting”
• 5 million masks distributed as ‘toxic’ smog descends on Delhi during Diwali

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• The US city preparing itself for the collapse of capitalism
• Groundbreaking Student Voter Bill Signed into Law in California
• Barbershop movement urges abusive men to tackle traumatic pasts
• We checked 100 years of protests in 150 countries. Here’s what we learned about the working class and democracy.
• U.S. Senate Greenlights Funding to Help Prevent Families From Losing Their Land
• Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think
• How Electric Scooters Are Set To Transform The $7 Trillion Mobility Market
• How to reduce plastic from your household shopping
• Italy proposes price cuts on plastic-free food and toiletries
• Your plastic waste could soon be transformed into make-up, scientists claim

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