Tag: China
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![NioCorp (NB.T) is developing the next niobium mine as US-China relations deteriorate!]()
NioCorp (NB.T) is developing the next niobium mine as US-China relations deteriorate!
If you want to invest in something with a bold geopolitical flavor, then rare earth minerals are the investment for you. When the China trade war headlines were all the markets were talking about way back when, rare earth minerals were always in articles titled something along the lines of, “Possible China trade war weapons”.…
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![Moving iMage Technologies (MITQ.Q): should you invest?]()
Moving iMage Technologies (MITQ.Q): should you invest?
Hollywood Goes Digital When I was little, my dad would often take my siblings and me to movies we definitely weren’t old enough to see. Whether it was Borat or Final Destination, you can bet your bottom dollar I left the cinema traumatized. Very nice! Around this time, the early 2000s for reference, Hollywood had…
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![Tenet Fintech (PKK.C) and how you can profit from globalization]()
Tenet Fintech (PKK.C) and how you can profit from globalization
A random conversation about globalization over the weekend brought to mind companies like Tenet Fintech (PKK.C). The conversation in question surrounded an alarming popular premise that recent geopolitical and economic movements have us barrelling towards a new world order, and while I’m not quite so dramatic about it, it’s not entirely without merit. Globalization has…
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![Guardforce AI (GFAI.Q): is it worth your time?]()
Guardforce AI (GFAI.Q): is it worth your time?
Blue Pin, Big Win Guardforce AI Co. Ltd. (GFAI.Q) announced today that it has entered into a mutual agreement with Blue Pin Limited, Hong Kong (HK), to integrate Blue Pin’s Guest Service Robot (GSR). In addition to integrating GSR with the Company’s concierge robots, Blue Pin will also co-market this integration within the hotel industry.…
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![Guardforce AI (GFAI.Q) Is Making Skynet a Reality]()
Guardforce AI (GFAI.Q) Is Making Skynet a Reality
Heavy Metal The zombie genre has been done to death, no pun intended. With this in mind, the robot apocalypse appears to be the next best thing. From the Terminator franchise to video games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Generation Zero, robots have been depicted as the enemy. Thus, an era…
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![If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition]()
If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition
If I had a billion dollars the first thing I’d do is buy a monkey. Not a howler monkey or a languor monkey, or one of those that gets creative with how they say hello, but a regular capuchin monkey—one that hasn’t reached puberty yet so he doesn’t get aggressive. His name would be Jocko,…
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![Exro Technologies (EXRO.T) Second Vehicle Integration of the Company’s Coil Driver™]()
Exro Technologies (EXRO.T) Second Vehicle Integration of the Company’s Coil Driver™
Hey, Can I Borrow Your Charger? Electric vehicles are cool. I remember my first time riding in the back of a Tesla when I was still in high school. If my memory serves me right, it was the Tesla Model S which was released back in 2012. I would have only been around 15-16 years old…
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![This week in crypto: The China Side-Eye Edition]()
This week in crypto: The China Side-Eye Edition
The biggest spate of news actually happened last Friday and it’s China again. Now all cryptocurrency related transactions are effectively banned in China. The effects were immediate: Coinbase Global (COIN.Q) and Robinhood took a 3.5% dive, while MicroStrategy (MSTR.Q) lost 6.7%. Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA.Q) lost %8.1. It didn’t stop there, though. The commentary from…
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![Hive Blockchain Technologies (HIVE.V) and Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA.Q): object lessons in bitcoin mining scaling]()
Hive Blockchain Technologies (HIVE.V) and Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA.Q): object lessons in bitcoin mining scaling
Crypto doesn’t really have the same appreciable metrics as other assets in determining value. The closest asset we have for comparison is gold, so much in fact that Bitcoin (and Ethereum) actually possesses a lot of the same characteristics—such as their shared tendency to act as a safe haven asset. But gold is in limited…
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![DJIA drops 600 points, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) falls USD $2,000, Fear Index (VIX) surges 61%, as Biden hits a wall of anti-vaxxers]()
DJIA drops 600 points, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) falls USD $2,000, Fear Index (VIX) surges 61%, as Biden hits a wall of anti-vaxxers
According to the “collective wisdom of the markets,” the DJIA is worth 50% more today than it was in March 2020.
