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Daily Digest 2/11 - Greece Gets Approval For 2nd Bailout, The Fallen EU Leaders, Treated Wastewater Coming To A Tap Near You

  • India Explores Economic Opportunities in Iran, Denting Western Sanctions Plan
  • Papademos Gets Cabinet Approval for 2nd Bailout
  • So What SHOULD Investors Buy In A World Fraught With Risk?
  • America’s Addiction To Debt: 30 Facts About Debt In America That Will Blow Your Mind
  • Of Jobs, Debts And Budgets
  • The Fallen
  • The Myth of Energy Independence: Why We Can't Drill Our Way to Oil Autonomy
  • As ‘Yuck Factor’ Subsides, Treated Wastewater Flows From Taps

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Daily Digest 2/10 - 10 Things Everyone Should Know About The Fed, Visualizing U.S. Debt, Why Is Gas Consumption Tanking?

  • Bill Black on Financial Fraud Investigations
  • Rick Santelli on Visualizing U.S. Debt; How Many Milky Way Galaxies Do We Owe?
  • Federal Reserve: Ten Things That Every American Should Know About The Fed
  • MF Global: Trail Growing Cold - 'No One to Blame'
  • Postal Service loses $3.3 billion in first quarter
  • Why Is Gasoline Consumption Tanking?
  • The Important Roles of Risk and Stealth in the Eagle Ford Shale Discovery
  • Texas Water District Acts to Slow Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer

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Daily Digest 2/9 - The Tumblin' Default, Denninger And Pollock Discuss Economy, Are There Holes In Pipeline Transparency?

  • Bond Investors: Bonds May Collapse Before Bernanke’s 2014 Target
  • The Tumblin' Default
  • The Root Cause of Excess Flab Almost Everyone Ignore
  • Doomsday Capitalism: Just Getting Started or Going Out of Style?
  • Karl Denninger - Warren Pollock Open Discussion
  • Glasgow solar study: 'We could put oil back in ground'
  • End of the Boom: The True State of the Shale Gas Industry
  • Are There Holes in Pipeline Transparency?
  • New Campaign Urges Labeling Of Genetically Modified Foods
  • Helping Soldiers Trade Their Swords for Plows
  • Rising temperatures at Fukushima raise questions over stability of nuclear plant

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Daily Digest 2/8 - State Pension Fund Shortfall Grows, Portugal Unions Want Debt Renegotiation, Student Debt Could Be Next Bomb

  • Robert B. Reich: The downward mobility of the American middle class
  • State pension fund shortfall grows
  • 48,000 empty shops blight UK high streets
  • Pa. universities face steep cuts in gov's proposed budget; student aid also on chopping block
  • Swiss central banker warns on slowing economy
  • Portugal union leader wants debt renegotiation
  • Chinese banks cut exposure to euro zone -paper
  • Europe’s Banks Reluctant to Lend to Companies in Need of Cash
  • CBO: Federal Budget Deficit $349 Billion Through First Four Months Of FY12
  • British pensions face 85 bln pound deficit-study
  • Detroit squatters may be allowed to keep foreclosed homes
  • Cleveland: City mistakenly boards up man's home
  • Company Faces Forgery Charges in Mo. Foreclosures
  • Average U.S. gas prices hover at record-high levels
  • U.S. Student Debt Could Be Next ‘Bomb’
  • Airline industry split widens over EU carbon 'tax' row
  • Japan’s interest in gold and silver is growing

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Daily Digest 2/7 - American Gridlock, Crazy Little Thing Called Greece, Truth, Lies, And Afghanistan

  • The Relentless Pursuit of Meaningless Metrics
  • Illusion Of Recovery - Feelings Versus Facts
  • American Gridlock, Part 2
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Greece
  • Saudi Arabia Will Not Let Oil Go Above $100: Prince
  • Truth, Lies, And Afghanistan
  • Fukushima Reactors Heating Up Again … Water Fails to Cool Them Down
  • A Perfect Storm of Planetary Proportions

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Daily Digest 2/6 - States Prepare For Hyperinflation, Shipping Rates Go Negative, What If The Lights Go Out?

  • Markets, Murmurations, and Machines
  • Greece takes step closer to default
  • Silver packs a punch as chemotherapy drug
  • Shipping Rates Go... Negative
  • U.S. States Prepare For Hyperinflation
  • What If We're Beyond Mere Policy Tweaks?
  • What If The Lights Go Out?
  • In Fuel Oil Country, Cold That Cuts to the Heart
  • Texas's Electrical Power Predicament

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Daily Digest 2/5 - Beware The Ides Of March, Protestors Pack Freezing Moscow Center, A Mortgage Tornado Warning, Unheeded

  • Art Cashin: Beware The Ides Of March—Or Maybe A Few Days Later
  • Syria Assad: Army massacres 'scores' in city of Homs
  • In Biting Cold, Protesters Pack the Center of Moscow
  • Homeless Families, Cloaked in Normality
  • A Mortgage Tornado Warning, Unheeded
  • Egyptian Forces Appear to End Siege of Ministry
  • Keystone Kops
  • U.N. Says Somalia Famine Has Ended, but Warns That Crisis Isn’t Over

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Daily Digest 2/4 - Looking In On The Housing Disaster, The Little Economy That Could, What's More Precious Than Gold?

  • On the 70th Anniversary of the Munich Students Movement - The War is Lost - The Future of Europe
  • Counterfeit Value Derivatives: Follow the Bouncing Ball
  • What Lies In Store For The "Cradle That Rocks The World" - A History Lesson In Crisis
  • What's More Precious Than Gold?
  • Real Estate: Looking In On The Housing Disaster
  • The Little Economy That Could
  • It Is Safe to Resume Ignoring the Prophets of Doom ... Right?
  • In a Focus on Gold, History Repeats Itself
  • San Onofre Nuclear Plant Radiation Leak, Worn Tubes Raise Concerns

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Daily Digest 2/3 - In Gold We Trust, Efford To Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires In Iran, China's Tight Grip On Rare Earths

  • Fiat Currency Failure Means: ‘In Gold We Trust’
  • Senate Approves Ban on Insider Trading by Congress
  • Effort to Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires in Iran
  • S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks
  • An Abundant Supply of Cheap Oil is the Most Important Resource for Our Future
  • Nepal and Bangladesh to Establish Joint Venture 3,000 Megawatt Power Plant
  • Trading China’s Tight Grip On Rare Earths
  • Pet Rescuers Venture Into Japan's Exclusion Zone

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