Your average marijuana plant is a rather unimposing, forest green weed that blends well with nature. The dirty truth, however, is that the business of growing cannabis is anything but green. In fact, the growing of pot is so power-intensive that its ecological footprint is qui...
James Burgess, Oilprice.com
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January 15, 2020
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The cannabis industry is hiding a dirty little secret. According to Evan Mills , a California-based energy and climate change scientist, the marijuana industry has a major problem…and it's likely to get worse before it gets better. "Legislators and energy agencies have ...
Ian Jenkins
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May 15, 2019
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Arizona may be famous for its gems, but it was silver that put the southwestern state on the mining map. Most visitors who flock to jewelry stores in Scottsdale and Sedona, searching for vibrantly-colored stones like turquoise and malachite, are likely unaware of the fact...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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January 15, 2020
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If you’re new to the markets, it’s easy to get scared of volatility. The media certainly makes it out to be a bad thing. But I believe it’s a landmark moment in an investor’s career when he/she realizes...
Marin Katusa
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November 15, 2019
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Benjamin Franklin once said; “Out of adversity comes opportunity.” The adversity the United States now faces with the coronavirus pandemic is the worst national emergency the country has faced since World War II, more serious, far more deadly, than a...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 3, 2020
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Turn an industry upside down and make a fortune? Since Elon Musk, the term "disruption" has become a familiar term among investors. How does one succeed in turning an industry upside down, and how do yesterday's revolutionaries look? Answers to these questions can be in the ex...
Nico Popp
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October 14, 2020
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How the marriage of cheap power and cryptocurrency have changed the face of rural communities around the globe "A fixed money supply, or a supply altered only in accord with objective and calculable criteria, is a necessary condition to a meaningful just price of money." ...
Dave Jackson
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March 15, 2018
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We have all worried about “robots taking our jobs”, but working in a creative field, I’ve always had a high-and-mighty belief that no mere machine could do what I do … until they could. Running a certain set of parameters through an ar...
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September 1, 2021
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“Gold is a relic of barbarism and should be discarded by all civilized nations as a medium of exchange.” -John T. Goss, addressing the U.S. Senate in 1894 By the early summer of 1940, Belgium and the Netherlands were defeated. France w...
Marin Katusa
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March 15, 2019
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It is becoming evident that the US/Chinese trade issues are going to become a point of contention for the markets going forward. We've been review as much news as possible in an attempt to build a consensus for the future of the US markets and global markets. As of last week, ...
Chris Vermeulen
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May 13, 2019
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