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via MarketWatch: PG&E’s bankruptcy would result in a default of $17 billion of its bonds If Pacific Gas & Electric Co. follows through with its bankruptcy announcement, the country’s … Read more
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Today’s emerging markets are tomorrow’s powerhouses, according to a recent forecast from Standard Chartered, a multinational bank headquartered in London. … Read more
by Michael Snyder If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would have the fifth largest GDP on the entire planet. At this point only the United States, China, … Read more
by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) Did you know that the nation’s largest producer of repurposed toilet waste, aka “biosolids,” is owned by an investment group that also maintains a “formal … Read more
via arkansasonline: Crooked Creek Bee Co., the retail sales and processing side of Arkansas’ largest commercial beekeeper, closed this week, a casualty of dicamba, Richard Coy, one of its owners, said … Read more
via Reuters: There are “lots of indications” that some managers discussed “the reputational risks” of Deutsche Bank’s involvement in a share-trading scheme that is the subject of Germany’s biggest post-war fraud … Read more
via mishtalk: The majority of board members at Banca Carige, Italy’s 10th largest bank, resigned and the ECB took Over. The Telegraph reports ECB Steps in at Italian Bank as Country Teeters … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Ugly long-term charts that Wall Street doesn’t want us to see. And now US stocks are infected too. How well does a buy-and-hold strategy work in … Read more
California’s largest utility could face murder charges or manslaughter charges if found responsible for sparking recent, deadly wildfires around the state, according to the state attorney general. California Attorney General … Read more
Dan Schultz from PositivelyDanSchultz and David DuByne creator of the ADAPT 2030 channel on YouTube discuss societal changes as our Earth shifts to a cooler climate as the Eddy Grand … Read more
Merry Christmas: Federal Debt Up $1.37 Trillion Since Last Dec. 25; $10,743 Per Household (CNSNews.com) – The federal government has added another $1,370,760,684,441.54 to the debt since last December 25, according … Read more
via Bloomberg: Planned debt issuance falls for seventh straight year Government also preparing extra budget for current year Japan’s budget for the fiscal year starting in April 2019 will … Read more
U.S. stock funds set for record monthly withdrawals: Lipper NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors fled U.S.-based stock funds in the latest week, setting those investments up for their biggest … Read more
via Yahoo: About 80 feet below Wall Street lies about 6,350 tons of gold, made up of about 508,000 bars, that are collectively worth hundreds of billions of dollars. According to ‘Key to … Read more
via TVUmK: Data was provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, found here. I used the ggplot2 and gganimate R libraries for the visualization. The code is available on Github. … Read more