Tag Archives: Economy

• Private Equity Tries to Protect Another Profit Center
• Paris commuter chaos as metro workers strike over pension reform
• How does France’s pension system compare?
• Hong Kong exchange vows to press on with $39 billion LSE bid after rebuff
• The California Real Estate Boom Is Over. What Now?
• Publix joins other retailers in asking patrons not to openly carry guns in its stores
• Asian markets move higher on hopes for a cooling trade war
• 5 Reasons To Bet On A China Trade Deal — Not Against The Dow Jones
• Why Can’t I Have This?
• The rich are different from you and me — they live a lot longer
• Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S.
• Huge Blow To US Farmers: China Heads To Argentina For Soy Meal In Landmark Deal
• The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster

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• Post-Gazette newsroom donates Pulitzer monetary award to Tree of Life congregation
• California bans private prisons – including Ice detention centers
• A Swiss house built by robots promises to revolutionize the construction industry
• This Is The Credit Score You Should Actually Be Striving For
• The heartwarming moment a long-distance couple with Down syndrome were reunited after their moms arranged a meeting for the duo who fell in love at a conference
• Hearing aids lower dementia, depression risk for older adults
• In Defense Of Screen Time
• Letter of Recommendation: Golfing With Strangers
• “A labour of love”: Zambia’s accidental tomato farmer
• How to Use Your Credit Card to Help the Environment

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• American Businesses Say China’s Slowdown Is a Greater Threat Than the Trade War
• Watch the chaos unfold as the UK’s parliament is suspended
• Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class
• The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy
• Why buying and selling a house could soon be as simple as trading stocks
• The 9/11 Attacks: Understanding Al-Qaeda and the Domestic Fall-Out from America’s Secret War
• STEM Is Overrated
• The Jeffrey Epstein investigation was more expansive than previously thought, documents show
• Oh that it should come to this Part 12
• Metals and The Big Cons
• DNA company tampered with results, former employees say
• Trump Flirts With $15 Billion Bailout for Iran, Sources Say
• Oil Demand Growth Weakest In Nearly A Decade
• Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy
• A Second Interstellar Object Has Almost Certainly Been Found In Our Solar System
• First human case of West Nile virus reported in Wisconsin

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• ‘Gold is the way to go’ as interest rates fall, says Mark Mobius
• China Has Added Nearly 100 Tons of Gold to Its Reserves
• Chicago’s deficit heralds US pensions crisis
• Corporate Pension Funding Moves Closer to Worrisome 80% Level
• Experts: Illinois pension debt could force cities to cut public safety jobs
• Real US debt levels could be 2,000% of economy, a Wall Street report suggests
• Just two DIET fizzy drinks a day ‘increases your risk of deadly heart attack or stroke by 50%’
• Weakening Shale Productivity “VERY Bullish” For Oil Prices
• Alien civilizations may have explored the galaxy and visited Earth already, a new study says. We just haven’t seen them recently.

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• Deficit surpasses $1 trillion: CBO
• The Trump administration’s new plan to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, explained
• Big Tech backlash kicks into gear with antitrust moves
• It’s Amazon’s world. We just live in it.
• This week, forget US vs. China. The action will be in Europe
• Australian pension funds’ $168 billion ‘wall of cash’ may lead overseas
• The ever-winning lottery ticket: Mathematicians solve a dusty mystery
• Around 4,500 truck drivers lost their jobs in August as the trucking ‘bloodbath’ rages on
• Peter Schiff: China, Russia buying gold because ‘they can read the writing on the wall’
• The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
• ‘Gold is the way to go’ as interest rates fall, says Mark Mobius
• Rochester, Buffalo and Hartford Least at Risk of a Housing Downturn in the Next Recession
• Why Are America’s Three Biggest Metros Shrinking?
• Trump administration considers monitoring people with mental illness to prevent shootings: report
• The Big Number: 29 million Americans take low-dose aspirin daily, but some probably shouldn’t
• Health officials in our region say “flu preparedness” season is under way
• Japan set to launch space station resupply mission
• Saudi Arabia is in a rush to boost oil prices as it gears up for Aramco IPO ‘very soon’
• Saudi Arabia seeks to enrich uranium for nuclear power, minister says
• Tesla researcher’s 1 million-mile battery cell breakthrough secures the Semi’s longevity
• We’re Barely Listening to the U.S.’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes
• Last day of the dinosaurs’ reign captured in stunning detail
• Nearly 1,000 Amazon employees plan a walkout to protest climate change
• Tokyo’s Typhoon Faxai: 3 Dead, 40 Injured, 900K Homes Without Power
• Japan may have to dump radioactive water into the sea, minister says
• Fifth straight year of bird die-off in Alaska waters linked to starvation

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• Biggest Inflation in the History of History Coming – Bill Holter
• There Will Be Blood: How a Manhattan Scion Built a Rural Empire
• In a Mexican border town, Central Americans returned by the U.S. are systematically targeted by kidnappers seeking ransom
• China’s trade with US shrinks as tariff war worsens
• Trump says he canceled secret Camp David meeting with Taliban leaders
• Why Economic Collapse Will Precede Climate Collapse
• Hong Kong police fire tear gas as clashes erupt after thousands appeal to Trump
• There’s a Simple Way to Lose Weight And Keep It Off, According to Science
• Manager: Trump family building ‘dynasty’ for decades to come
• Many older Americans aren’t prepared for emergencies like Hurricane Dorian
• Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America
• Saudi king replaces energy minister, naming one of his sons
• Catalytic Reactor Turns Greenhouse Gas Into Pure Liquid Fuel
• Wisconsin Farm Loan Delinquencies Jump To Levels Not Seen Since 2001
• Oceanic and radiative forcing of medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest

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• The $86 Trillion World Economy in One Chart
• Lagarde Says ‘Highly Accommodative Policy’ Is Warranted by ECB
• Life in Kashmir under security and communications clampdown
• Trump administration unveils Fannie, Freddie overhaul, urges Congress to act
• Latest Trade War Causalities: More Than 10,000 Layoffs in August
• Mortgage rates fell again this week — and the Fed could push them even lower
• 8 Daily Habits of Frugal People
• Positive economic data triggered a ‘sea change’ in the stocks that are working on Wall Street, Jim Cramer says
• China Injects $126 Billion Into Its Slowing Economy
• Shopkeepers lose everything to looting in Johannesburg
• Gold and Silver Prices – Day by Day
• Gold’s big drop is just the beginning of a longer slide
• Currency That Expires – That’s the Solution – Or Just Cancel it all?
• Humans Are Creating Their Own Narratives
• The Bad Daddy: My Plan to Save the World
• The Silicon Valley Heavyweights Who Want to Settle the Moon
• HARPA: America’s New Social Credit Plan Partners Big Tech and Govt to Further Gun Control Efforts
• DNA Hints the Loch Ness ‘Monster’ Might Be Giant Eel
• Toxic Nanoparticle Air Pollution Found in Human Brain Tissue

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• Optimists For The Win: Finding The Bright Side Might Help You Live Longer
• The unofficial symbol of partying might soon find a sustainable replacement
• The camp that makes future millionaires
• A Tomato Grows in the East River
• Maine First U.S. State to Ban Styrofoam Containers
• Prince Harry announces massive travel sustainability project
• Ireland to plant 440m trees to battle climate change
• NASA’s eight-rotor Dragonfly drone is heading to Saturn’s largest moon
• The Closer You Live To Nature The Happier You’ll Be, Study Finds
• Our Shared Digital Future: Building an Inclusive, Trustworthy and Sustainable Digital Society

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• Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ says he has found the next market bubble
• Alan Greenspan says it’s ‘only a matter of time’ before negative rates spread to the US
• Pentagon to notify lawmakers of delayed military projects to pay for border barrier
• Modern Survivalist Currency Crisis Ongoing | Fernando “FerFAL” Aguirre
• The Deadly Race
• Busting The Myth Of The World’s Hottest Electric Car Market
• Wall Street Gears Up For Onslaught Of Oil & Gas Bankruptcies
• 5 Takeaways From the Democrats’ Climate Town Hall
• Special Feature: Safire Project 2019 Update
• Hurricane Dorian threatens the US after devastating the Bahamas

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• Down, down they go: Emerging central banks deliver most rate cuts in a decade
• What would it take to pay off Illinois’ debt?
• Positive yields ahoy! Investors hoover up European junk bond issues
• Central banks are locked in currency wars they cannot win
• Low interest rates are compounding the big problems facing pension funds
• Negative Interest Rates Threaten the Financial System
• Rich people are hoarding cash, and wealth managers are getting frustrated
• The Last Act of the Human Comedy
• Australia Wants Two-Year Prison Sentences for Paying More Than $10,000 in Cash
• Gold will be explosive, unlike anything we’ve seen says Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra
• Tesla Just Made a Huge Announcement That May Completely Change the Auto Industry. Here’s Why It’s Brilliant
• Putting the ‘nuclear coffin’ in perspective

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