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This article originally appeared on Contrarian Edge in 2015 and is republished with permission.  After I submitted my previous column to the Institutional Investor Magazine, on the financial innovation taking place at Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), I learned that Sprint Corp (NYSE: S), T-Mobile US...

What kind of cash would Elvis Presley, who died exactly 40 years ago, bring in at the box office if he’d made his movies today? Pure conjecture, since tickets and the dollar itself were much cheaper in the King’s heyday. Global distribution also wasn’t as seamless as it is now....

Analysts at Deutsche Bank turned bullish on casino operator Wynn Resorts, Limited (NASDAQ: WYNN) after a reconfiguration of the casino floor in Wynn Palace to attract more visitors is showing signs of success. The firm's Carlo Santarelli upgraded Wynn's stock rating from Hold to Buy with a price...

FRIDAY NIGHT INC COM NPV (OTC: VPGDF) (CNSX: TGIF), a Nevada-based marijuana company, recently announced it had entered into a non-binding letter of intent with SuicideGirls Cannabis. As per the LOI, Friday Night will sell SuicideGirls’ products in Nevada, which started with adult-use...

You don’t need a shoebox with a pinhole to view the solar eclipse in a half-baked sort of way. You can see the real deal. As Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) would say (they actually trademarked this phrase), there’s an app for that. Wander over to the American Astronomical Society website for...

Steve, a cancer patient in California, hits up his dispensary and asks for half an ounce of high-THC marijuana to calm his pain and stimulate his appetite, recently gone thanks to chemotherapy. He rarely leaves his house now; his sickness is still debilitating. His bank account looks fine, funded,...

With so many investors applying environmental, social and governance principles to equity investments, it was only a matter of time before the bond universe got in on the act. A new fixed income exchange-traded fund, the VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (NYSE: GRNB), allows bond investors to emphasize...

Where have we seen this movie before? It was “Thank You For Smoking,” a barbed satire based on a Christopher Buckley novel about the government’s attempt to rein in the cigarette trade by forcing Big Tobacco to put a skull and crossbones on every pack. Since that movie came out in...

Cannabis capital markets in Canada are considerably more mature than in the U.S., largely because the substance is federally legal in America’s hat, while remaining federally illegal in the Land of Liberty. In this context, a marijuana company hitting a major exchange in Canada is a big deal...

Bloomin' Brands Inc (NASDAQ: BLMN)-owned Outback Steakhouse has put on PR clinic on how to respond to  bizarre allegations that stem from social media, after firing back at Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) speculation that the steakhouse was actually a conspiring satanic cult. Outback didn’t...

Recreational drug tourism is not a new fad. People have been traveling across the globe for decades in search of the best high. From India’s hashish to South America’s hallucinogenic cacti, to Amsterdam’s famed legal marijuana, high-quality, mind-altering (and often illegal)...

Zynerba Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: ZYNE), which specializes in transdermal synthetic cannabinoid treatments, has a 25-percent probability for success in its treatment of adult epilepsy, an analyst said Tuesday. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Elemer Piros said there were no surprises in the Q2 results...

If you Google “weed coffee” or “cannabis coffee,” you’ll come across dozens of articles explaining how to make your own marijuana-infused drinks. In fact, Google Trends confirms there is considerable search volume around these terms and other related recipes —...

The trade in elephant ivory is down but not out. And the nation’s capital has become a hotbed for hawking ivory, apparently because other places have made it harder to move stuff made from the tusks of slaughtered pachyderms. TRAFFIC, a nonprofit group that monitors wildlife trafficking, said...

Tax policy is as complex as it is ideological. Some believe the role of the government is to incentivize economic growth by reducing taxes for job-creating corporations; others think that the larger burden should not be undertaken by the people, but instead by businesses that generate economic...