A failed ocean in what is now the Amazon rainforest could soon help solve Brazil’s biggest agriculture problem But to grow that food, Brazil depends on other nations for its most essential fertilizer — a mineral called potash. In fact, Brazil imports about 98% of this critical nutrient from tens of...
Throughout the entire month of September, Bitcoin had been traveling in a lazy sideways channel, bouncing between a floor of 25150 and a high of 28000. Throughout September, the 200 Simple Moving Average(SMA, shown in red below) held up as a strong level if resistance, keeping Bitcoin from rallying. Then...
The price of gold has skyrocketed over the past few months, moving up from $1,600 to over $2,000 per ounce, in increase of 25 percent.  With the recent turmoil in the banking industry, cryptocurrencies and continued inflationary pressure, investors are flocking to gold as a safe haven. As the price of...
As the curtain closes on the stock market’s acclaimed ‘good’ season, we stand at the crossroads of profit and prudence. With portfolios plumped up like Thanksgiving turkeys, thanks to a 22% feast since November, the temptation to pocket those gains and saunter into summer is palpable. But before you decide...
Big Tech’s AI Gamble: Is Wall Street Ready to Wait? Welcome to this week’s edition of The Market Pulse, where we dive deep into the critical crossroads of AI innovation, tech earnings, and Wall Street's ticking clock. This week, the Magnificent 7—led by Microsoft, Tesla, Meta, and Apple—report quarterly results,...
The End of Just-In-Time Manufacturing as we Know It Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing was initiated in the 1950s and 1960s by Toyota. The approach was developed as part of the Toyota Production System (TPS), which aimed to minimize waste and improve efficiency in manufacturing processes.  The concept of JIT revolves around producing...
Big Pharma companies have built empires out of human pain without managing to come close to addressing the number one cause of disability in the world: Depression, a disease that costs the economy a trillion dollars in lost production every year.  But while Big Pharma is turning over billions in...
Phase Two of the $700B electric vehicle boom—the electric boat rush—is becoming just as crowded as its four-wheeled predecessor, with so many start-ups dotting this landscape it’s dizzying.  Loads of debt, problems getting into production, far-off delivery dates that make revenues a thing of the distant future—if at all—and failures-to-deliver...
Bitcoin has been surging lately. The cryptocurrency has rallied nearly 70% from $26,000 in October to recent highs of $44,000. The popular cryptocurrency still has a way to go to get back to its historic price level of nearly $69,000, set in November 2021.  It appears that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...
Thousands of years ago, ancient Aztecs may have held the key to the next biotech breakthrough. During ceremonial rituals, they used a special compound they called “the flesh of the gods”... And today, researchers are discovering that this same compound could transform how we approach mental health moving forward… Sparking an explosion...