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...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 8, 2020 | Big Picture
The news this morning is sobering: over twenty million Americans lost their jobs in April, causing the unemployment rate to jump to its highest level in post-War history. To the extent that is natural, biological processes came together to create the coronavirus that...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Apr 21, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
On this, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we should all be celebrating that the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for alternative generation sources is dependably lower than that of carbon emitting sources. (My co-contributor at Forbes, Silvio Marcacci, wrote an...
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