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...
Real estate thought it was going to breeze through the pandemic while it watched travel, retail and service industries plunge into COVID uncertainty, and while the industry isn’t crumbling, a visible slowdown will have to prompt change.
The Spring 2020 real estate shopping season was pretty much a wash. Newly...
Over the past 2 years Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been hammered as investors headed toward the exits. Major brokers were in flux in 2022 when Binance refused to buy out Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange. Some experts warned that Bitcoin could fall as low as $9,000.
Simply put, the Bitcoin...
The Return of the Commodities Supercycle
Welcome to the second full week of 2026, and if you thought the markets were going to ease into the new year with a gentle stretch and a yawn, you were sorely mistaken. We are seeing a mix of old-school geopolitical tension and new-age...
With lawmakers reaching agreement on the debt ceiling, one of the winners in the negotiations could be wind and solar energy.
The debt ceiling agreement paves the way for the building of interstate transmission lines which is key to Biden’s infrastructure agenda. Specifically, it would ease the permitting process for...
When we think about infrastructure, roads, bridges and transportation facilities immediately come to mind. The Biden Administration is currently investing $220 Billion in over 32,000 projects in 4,500 communities according to a report in USA Today. It’s the largest focused infrastructure investment since the days of FDR.
Key current infrastructure...
Millennials have been labeled many things: lazy, entitled, narcissistic among other unflattering terms. They have also been accused of being highly risk-averse, preferring flashy investments like crypto over slow-n-steady deliverables such as stocks and bonds.
More recently, though, millennials have busted this stereotype.
Last year, they became the largest living adult...
The design of the Tesla Cybertruck generated a wide range of reactions when it was first unveiled in November 2019. These reactions were mixed, with some people enthusiastic about its futuristic, angular, and unconventional appearance, while others expressed skepticism or disappointment. Here are some of the key mixed reactions...
Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officially cleared blockchain startup Blockstack to hold the first regulated security token offering (STO) under Reg A+ crowdfunding rules.
This essentially means that Blockstack received regulatory approval to raise funds by selling Bitcoin-like, digital assets to the public. Just a day later,...
Every once in a while, word gets out about a looming shortage of a certain--usually niche--commodity. Natural resource companies, both large and small, then quickly “pivot” to said commodity, and the next thing you know a surge of investment interest and, frequently, commodity bubbles quickly follow.
It’s a script that...
