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: Higher interest rates probably won’t cause this bull market in stocks to end, according to research dating to 1871
2021-10-29 04:54:00 Investors are beginning to worry that interest rates’ steady march higher over the past few months will sabotage the bull market in stocks. They shouldn’t worry. My analysis of stock market history since 1871 shows that higher rates are not what causes bull markets to end. This conclusion is certainly contrary to what […]
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 […]
These are the 2 main reasons you should consider adding semiconductor stocks to your portfolio now
2021-10-25 06:44:00 The shortage of microchips might prompt an investor to believe that these are golden times for semiconductor manufacturers because high demand and limited supply can combine for higher prices and rising profits. But the low supply can also hurt sales in the short run. Analysts are sending mixed signals. So it might be […]