Mastercard (MA.NYSE) backs out of Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra team like a two-headed baby
Mastercard (MA.NYSE) joined PayPal (PYPL.Q) and Visa (V.NYSE) with its announced exit from Facebook's (FB.Q) Libra support group today, leaving the once famed...
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This Tesla (TSLA.Q) rival just blew $2.5 billion building a factory where the average worker makes $90,000/yr
It’s a general tenet of business that low labour costs increase profitability. Who wants pay a hung-over Chicago factory-worker $25/hr – when some dude...
GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) playing it tight as cannabis financing dries up across sector
For the last few years, if cannabis companies wanted money, there was a long line of folks happy to oblige. More recently, those financiers have dried up,...
Pivot Pharma (PVOT.C): can a new CEO turn a cannabis science co. into a profit machine?
Perusing Pivot Pharmaceuticals' (PVOT.C) website you might think you’ve stumbled onto Pfizer’s (PFE.NYSE) “Proprietary IP” link. “RTIC infused...
Deals being reversed across the board as weed companies discover fiscal responsibility
Sometimes a deal broken is a good deal for shareholders, especially if you give a red rat's behind about your favourite company having enough money to survive...
Equity.Guru podcast: can 3D-Sustainable Developments help solve the global housing crisis?
The 3D-Printing Space has produced winners, like Materialise (MTLS.NASDAQ), that provides 3D printing software solutions for healthcare, automotive and...
E-Sports ETFs are terrible and not really about e-sports, but what is?
Zynga (ZNGA.Q), the mobile video game developer, is a terrible investment. The sort of large company that only stays large because it's large to begin with,...
Pasha Brands (CRFT.C) expands its galaxy of craft cannabis brands
The stock market assigns no intrinsic value to the “small beautifully-constructed thing”. You run an innovative music school? You build yurts out of...
Nexus Gold (NXS.V) Canada’s empty houses are now worth $600 billion – should you sell your house and buy gold?
In 2009, I worked beside a razor-sharp Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) who was obsessed with the wealth creation opportunities in gold juniors. The dude...
Navigating the cannapocalypse through value picks: Don’t be swayed by optimists or cynics
Yesterday, weed stocks were generally green. The day before too. This brought about a load of folks on social media talking about how 'cannabis is back!' and...
Investor Alert: here’s what a regular Chinese communist thinks about the trade war
I recently met an electrical engineer in Chengdu China I’ll call “Mr. Kin”. He’s 53 years old, works for a private utility company. He’s been a...
The Tinley Beverage Company (TNY.C), weed drinks and its plans for world domination
"California is North America's largest beverage market. Plus it’s the continent’s largest cannabis market," says Jeff Maser, founder and CEO of The Tinley...
The end of the world, or, how I learned to live with a habitually shrinking PMI
The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) U.S. manufacturing survey was released yesterday and, boy, did it ever raise alarms. Estimations of the ongoing...
Crosspost: RethinkX, the end of beef and how to eat our way out of climate change
RethinkX, a think tank which analyzes industry-disrupting technologies, has published a report about new sources of protein at a time when hamburgers may be...
E-sports in a nutshell: Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX.V)’s Overwatch League team makes finals, but where’s the dough?
If you bought into Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX.V) because they have a connection to the Vancouver Titans Overwatch League team, congratulations on their winning...
