Opinion: To get critical minerals mines built, automakers and Big Tech need to enter the fray

2023-05-07 13:48:40 Open this photo in gallery: Brock O’Kelly, assistant general manager with Molycorp Minerals, surveys the property around the Mountain Pass Mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., in this 2009 file photo.Reuters Candace MacGibbon is a Canadian mining executive. With the attention on decarbonization, the world is shifting toward an acute shortage of critical minerals […]

Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin State Of Mind

2022-05-11 Imagine Tupac Shakur (also known professionally as 2Pac) coming back to discover modern rap music. At the very least, he would have some questions, “What the fuck is ‘mumble’ rap?” Not that 2Pac invented rap, but he’s certainly a contender for the greatest rapper of all time, so assuming he would have input is […]

Be brave and buy the stock market dip

2022-05-05 That’s a good thing because there is usually an inverse correlation between the mood of investors and the future returns from stock market investments. Not always, because investors can get gloomy well before the market hits bottom, but often enough for sentiment to be a useful signal. The second measure to look at is […]

Opinion | The First Bitcoin-Related Fund Makes Its Stock Market Debut

2021-10-25 12:23:13 Since then, things have been pretty tame. In an earlier edition of this newsletter, I wrote about non-fungible tokens and how we should think of them as online communes and not only as get-rich-quick schemes. The mix of shared purpose and alienation in NFT online communities came, in part, from earlier iterations of […]