by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 28, 2020 | Big Picture
Capitalism is the economic expression of humans’ greatest strength – adaptability. This economic system has allowed human civilization to become increasingly prosperous, connected, and peaceful over the centuries. It is only natural to think that investors and...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 27, 2020 | All AgTech, Big Picture
I couldn’t help being curious when I received an invitation from Wendy De La Harpe, Project Director of the African Agri Council (AAC), to attend the organization’s virtual conference The Crucial Role of AgTech: The battle for a food-secure world. Africa is home to...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 21, 2020 | Big Picture
Moderna’s press release announcing the initial success in its Phase I trials of a Covid-19 vaccine was one of the main reasons the Dow Jones Industrials shot up by nearly a thousand points on Monday. Moderna, a Boston-based ex-unicorn that has successfully developed...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 13, 2020 | Big Picture
This morning’s release of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – the standard measure of a nation’s economic activity – contains an important warning that equity market investors would do well by heeding. The warning is not that equity markets are trading too rich vis-à-vis...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 12, 2020 | All AgTech, Regenerative Agriculture
Sometimes it takes an emergency to understand what is important in life. With recent news stories about dairy farmers dumping milk and meat processing facilities shutting down, it is starting to dawn on urbanites and their suburbanite cousins that something pretty...
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