Opinion and Recommendations
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From Meme Stock to $56 Billion Offer: The GameStop Story Gets Stranger
Life is stranger than fiction. A store. A meme. Now an outrageous offer. Remember when you could actually trade games at a fair price. You couldn’t. That’s the thing. You never could. GameStop gave you $5 for a game you paid $70 for three months earlier. They charged $55 for a used copy of something…
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Lead Paint Was Banned in 1978. 500,000 Kids Still Have Elevated Levels.
The Romans called it plumbum. They built their empire on it. Water pipes. Cooking vessels. Wine vessels. Aqueducts that carried water across half a continent. The soft grey metal bent easily, lasted forever, and sat quietly in the infrastructure of daily life for centuries. They didn’t know it was killing them. We do. This week…
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The Airline Nobody Liked Was the One Millions of People Needed
You needed to be somewhere. It was urgent. Too far to drive. The train wasn’t an option. Not in America where Amtrak takes eighteen hours to do what a plane does in two. So you opened a browser and found Spirit Airlines. Not because you wanted to. Because $89 was the difference between going and…
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47 Million Americans Can’t Afford Food in the World’s Richest Country
You were supposed to have choices. Go to the grocery store and cook something. Pick up something quick on the way home. Food was never supposed to be the hard part. You were told it was abundant. Finish your plate. There are starving children in Africa. Then came the other promise. Study hard. Get a…
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The Energy Debate Has Nothing to Do With the Technology
You plug something in and it works. That’s the whole relationship we have with energy. The light comes on. The phone charges. What’s behind the wall is someone else’s problem and always has been. That invisibility is the reason this conversation is so hard. Nobody campaigns against coal because nobody sees it. The plant is…
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QVC Filed Bankruptcy. The Real Loss Happened Years Earlier.
Years have passed since you last saw one, yet you can still remember her voice. Hi, Cathy Mitchell here! You were a kid. It was late. You were supposed to be asleep. The television was on in the other room and something about the way she said it made you stop. Not the product. Not…
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Market Rotation Picks Up: Small Companies Outperform Big Tech
Markets are acting differently in early 2026. Small-cap stocks are up, and tech is starting to lag. It’s a sharp change from last year when the big tech names carried almost everything. Investors are noticing. Michael Arone from State Street says the rotation started late last year and gained momentum in recent weeks. Earnings, policy…
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First Quantum Unlocks Cobre Panama Stockpile, Driving Copper Output
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) got a big break this week. Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino gave the nod to allow the company to process ore that’s been sitting at its idle Cobre Panama mine since operations stopped in 2023. It’s not a full reopening, but it’s a start toward stabilizing the site. The company…
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Ex-Defence Minister Enters Canadian Defence Tech With Bold New Startup
Former Canadian defence minister Harjit Sajjan has entered the private sector with a new defence technology startup aimed at supporting Canada’s growing military and sovereignty ambitions, particularly in the Arctic. Sajjan is a cofounder and executive chair of Juno Industries Inc., a Vancouver-based company developing autonomous systems software for use in high-risk environments. The startup…
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Investor Protection at Risk? Warren Questions SEC on Crypto Integration
Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the SEC to clarify how it will protect investors as cryptocurrency and other alternative assets start appearing in 401(k) and other retirement accounts. Her request follows an executive order from August 2025 that encouraged federal regulators to make alternative assets, like crypto and private equity, easier to access. Concerns About…
