One of the largest pot stocks goes public…

From Business Insider: Aurora Cannabis, one of the largest Canadian marijuana producers, is going public on the New York Stock Exchange. When Aurora’s shares start trading on Tuesday morning, the company will join a select list of cannabis producers that are listing on US-based exchanges. While US-based exchanges were initially reluctant to list Canadian marijuana producers, … Read more

Roman Republic’s Debt Crisis & Led to it’s Collapse

by Martin Armstrong   QUESTION: You said that Imperial Rome did not have a national debt nor central banks. Did Rome ever have debts that were not private? JY ANSWER: Yes. In all honesty, it was the Debt Crisis that ended the Roman Republic. There was a Sovereign Debt Crisis during the Roman Republic period resulted in a dictatorship … Read more

U.S. SHALE OIL INDUSTRY: Catastrophic Failure Ahead

BY SRSROCCO While the U.S. Shale Industry produces a record amount of oil, it continues to be plagued by massive oil decline rates and debt.  Moreover, even as the companies brag about lowering the break-even cost to produce shale oil, the industry still spends more than it makes.  When we add up all the negative factors weighing … Read more

Technically Speaking: Risk Of A Bigger Correction Rising

by Lance Roberts In this past weekend’s missive “Market’s Cling To Support,” I noted the early February correction process where we saw a similar short-term bottoming process where the initial bounce failed then bounced in mid-March before failing again to retest the February lows.  On Monday, the market broke through the 200-dma which puts portfolio management on high … Read more

Are Millennials About To Get Slaughtered?

Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog, The other day I wrote a piece “When will chasing the hot stock no longer work?” which outlined how “price momentum” was the main driving factor during the recent stock market rally. I went through how value stocks have been sucking wind ever since the Great Financial Crisis. … Read more

UTAH: Homicide & University of Utah campus shooting suspect holed-up inside church! Killed himself?

Police find person shot dead on University of Utah campus after reported kidnapping University of Utah police investigated a report of shots fired and a possible kidnapping on the University of Utah campus on Monday, and soon located the victim. They found the shot person in a car near the scene. The person was found … Read more

A California judge has rejected Monsanto’s appeal to overturn a landmark jury verdict which found that its popular herbicide causes cancer

Dewayne Johnson originally won $289m after finding Roundup weedkiller caused illness, but judge reduces financial award A California judge has rejected Monsanto’s appeal to overturn a landmark jury verdict which found that its popular herbicide causes cancer. The judge’s ruling on Monday largely sided with Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, a father of three and former school groundskeeper, who won … Read more

Even more trouble for Tesla…

From The Verge: Tesla’s cars may be high-tech, but that doesn’t mean they’re foolproof when it comes to security. This fact is on display in a new video that shows, without the proper protections in place, that it’s not that hard to steal one of the company’s cars. The video shows two thieves skulking around a … Read more