Good News! Cynicism – The Greater Risk for Investors
You'd never know it by reading the news, but you and I are among the luckiest souls to have ever lived! By nearly any metric, today is the best time in history to be alive. We're the safest, healthiest, wealthiest
Good News! Spring Edition – Financial Markets Blossom in 2024
Enclosed, insulated and protected, the dormant material receives a long anticipated signal from the outside world - "warmth". First a trickle, then a rush of nutrients, water and carbohydrates prime the ancient machine. As the cells absorb the elixir of
Good News! Why the US Market Outpaces Canada – and What to Do About It
The Chrysler 440 cubic inch motor was the largest of its big block engines. Debuting in 1966, this 7.2 litre behemoth featured pistons that were almost 5" in diameter. Gear heads will debate whether it, the Ford 427 or the
Good News! Humanoid Robots and the Rise of Embodied AI
Sometimes a breakthrough rattles windows and draws "oohs and ahhs". Other times a breakthrough goes largely unnoticed. On January 7th, roboticists at startup FigureAI, achieved a breakthrough by asking, "Hey Figure 1, can you make me a cup of coffee?"
France's striker Antoine Griezmann lofted the free kick into Croatia's penalty box. Players of both teams jumped to defend or to head in the free kick. One player rose higher than the others, heading the ball just over the head
Supersonic flight involves a great irony - in order to go faster, engineers have to slow down the air entering the engines. Counter-intuitive right? Take my favourite plane of all time, the venerable SR-71 Blackbird.
Good News! What Investors Can Learn from Notre Dame’s Restoration
Notre Dame on fire (image courtesy of FranceToday.com) Notre Dame on Fire — And the Lessons Begin The Queen of Cathedrals has lessons for investors today. She has stood on an island in the Seine largely completed since 1260. Desecrated
Good News! How Investors Can Navigate Uncertainty Like Central Bankers Should
The combination of clear mountain air and expansive night skies in Wyoming's Jackson Hole may be responsible for the clearest account of Central Banking in recent memory. Chairman Powell was unusually forthright when he admitted that the Federal Reserve was,
Good News! What Volcanoes and Climate Tech Mean for Investors
In 1815, Mount Tambora, in modern day Indonesia, erupted spectacularly, sending about 10 cubic miles of rock and dust into the atmosphere. Heard from over 2,600 miles away, the largest ever volcanic eruption in the past 13,000 years spewed ash
