Tag: Nov2018

The Canadian company began as a dealer in medical marijuana but wasted no time positioning itself for the world beyond October 18, 2018, the day when smoking ganja for fun became legal in Canada. Since 2016, Aurora has gobbled up CannaMed, Pedianos, Urban Cultivator, and eight other marijuana businesses – mostly recently MedReleaf, for which...

On 19 September, two days before U.S. equity markets hit new highs, we alerted Trends Journal subscribers to prepare for an Economic 9/11. In October, the Nasdaq slumped 9 percent, its biggest drop since the Panic of ‘08. And the S&P 500 lost 7 percent, its worst month since September 2011. And it’s getting worse....

It’s a sick joke. America! The land of the “Exceptionals.” The home of “We’re #1.” “Geek Central” Silicon Valley Techno-wizards… a nation with voting systems on par with Zimbabwe…or maybe worse. Some two weeks after the mid-term elections in the United States, critical high-profile gubernatorial, Senate and House races have remained unresolved. Besieged by lawsuits...

The Midterm elections in the U.S. marked yet another significant step forward for legal marijuana across the globe, advancing a trend we identified three years ago: Money Reefer Madness. We had forecast that both recreational and medical marijuana would become increasingly accepted by the global community. Why? Simple. The same reason they ended prohibition in...

The crypto community is built on the idea that Bitcoin is digital gold and has the potential to become world money. It’s done so usually by disparaging not only fiat money but physical gold, creating a line of contention between Bitcoin and the precious metal upon which much of its design is based. This kind...

“Global Economic Slowdown Deepens” read the 14 November front page Wall Street Journal headline. It’s real. And while some nations are slowing down, others are diving deep into economic and social despair. No clearer example than what’s going on south of America’s border down Mexico way, where several thousand escapees who left their economically depressed...

The coming fifth generation of wireless communication technology, 5G for short, promises to make everything better. Except your health. 5G is designed to make wireless service faster and more connected, while also being cheaper and using less energy. It’s possible, because 5G uses shorter wavelengths that can send data as much as 1,000 times faster...

As a culture, we’re so busy grappling for solutions, racing to conclusions and viscerally reacting to what’s on the screen in front of our faces, that we’re bypassing the deeper, interior assets of the human brain. According to Gallup pollsters, only one-third of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers feel engaged in their work. This has...

“If the ocean dies,” said Paul Watson, founder of the activist group Sea Shepherds, “we die.” The oceans aren’t in hospice care yet, but they qualify for a bed in the intensive care ward. And we’re also on the waiting list. Only about half the oxygen we breathe comes from trees and other ground-rooted plants....

A survey of more than 14,000 college freshmen in 19 colleges across eight countries found that a third of the students reported symptoms consistent with a diagnosable mental health disorder, according to the American Psychological Association. Major depression was the most common disorder, evinced by 35 percent of the respondents; 30 percent admitted symptoms that...