On Friday we gave a talk about bitcoin to a group of investment professionals. The audience ranged from large state pension fund managers, CFAs, noted academics and even a Federal Reserve president. There was enough intellectual wattage in the...
While Nick and I are in San Diego for a conference, we capitalized on the opportunity to visit some local marijuana dispensaries as they just started selling recreational cannabis on New Year’s. We’ve been covering the legal retail marijuana...
The 500 Euro note is sometimes called “The Bin Laden”, but that moniker has nothing to do with the bill’s supposed role in funding terrorism. Recall that the euro currency began life in the early 2000s, just when Osama Bin Laden was the most...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions just threw a major wrench in the growth of the American legal marijuana industry. Before we explain how, here is some background. As states started legalizing recreational marijuana over the past few years, many banks...
We’re starting the New Year with some weight watching, but targeted at popular global investment indices rather than waistbands. The key issue: as we kick off 2018, where are investors (perhaps unintentionally) overexposed to Technology? And...
If Democrats want any chance of winning a majority in Congress next year, they need to rally millennials to vote for them. A tall ask for mid-term elections, as 80% of this cohort stayed home in the 2014 midterms. Here is how the 2016 presidential...
