What insiders know 📶

Weed: Marijuana startups are burning through cash as they struggle to grow their business, and investors are bracing for a potential wave of bond defaults.

Burn: Apparently 76% of Colombian Amazon rainforest fell in the first quarter from a year earlier because of a warlord with a cocaine organization and a bounty on his head.

Again: Microsoft and Activision have a new proposal that they hope will gain the UK’s approval. Under the terms which is applies globally, Microsoft agrees to sell the cloud rights to Activision’s PC and console games over the next 15 years to French publisher Ubisoft.

Payment: In 2023, financial organizations around the world sold $2 trillion of bonds in record time as European lenders raised money to repay cheap central bank loans while Chinese companies supported balance sheets against mounting economic tension.

Stats: According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, data showed those born from 1957 to 1964 saw hourly earnings surge until age 24, while earnings growth then slowed until age 44, and failed to move significantly after that.

Stretch: There are now enough charging stations for travelers to make the drive on the US Highway 50 from California to Maryland.

Warning: Shootings increased 869% in the last 20 years, during which imports of US semiautomatic firearms rose nearly 10-fold. In addition, one third of guns used in Canadian crimes and then traced by authorities were legally imported from the US; which is three times the global average.

Nature: According to the World Economic Forum, $44 trillion of global economic value relies to some extent on nature.

Sad: Reportedly effects of record-low Antarctic ice will cause 90% of the emperor penguins as a species to be quasi-extinct by the end of the century.

Frying: In late August of 2023 the state of Texas is warning of possible blackouts as a heat wave bears down on the central US.

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