We’ve all seen the bottle. It’s sitting on the shelf at Whole Foods or The Fresh Market, probably in the fancy water aisle. It’s heavy. Glass. The label for Mountain Valley Spring Water evokes images of untouched forests and pristine…
You probably don’t think about it. You put money into your 401(k) or your investment account, trusting that you’re playing on a level field. You trust that the market has rules… rules of transparency, of fairness! Rules that were designed…
It’s a story you’ve heard before, but it never gets any less devastating. Someone you trust, someone with all the right credentials, promises you a ticket to the good life. A way out of the rat race. A secret path…
On May 9, 2024, an EPA inspector stood at the edge of a wetland near Smackover, Arkansas, looking at a dirty disaster. Water that should have been teeming with life was poisoned. It was flowing from the wetland into a…
The Upper Columbia River has been the home to the Confederated Tribes of the Coville Reservation since “time immemorial”, according to a recent lawsuit filed against Teck Resources Limited. The river was their grocery store, their sanctuary, their religious church….…
Imagine you’ve made a big decision. You’re moving your life savings, your retirement fund, your nest egg, from one brokerage to another. You find a new firm, fill out the paperwork, and click “submit” on the transfer request. You expect…
Imagine you’re deciding where to invest your savings. All $36 to be precise. You pull up the data on a company, looking at its stock price and, just as importantly, its trading volume. High volume suggests a lot of interest,…
Inside the $346 Million Aequitas Collapse Chris Bean got the call on September 24, 2015. On the other end of the line was Brian Rice, an executive at a buzzy investment firm called Aequitas Management. Rice was pitching a golden…
Imagine sitting in a dental chair, the high-pitched whir of the drill in your ears. You’re focused on the procedure, trusting you’re in a safe, sanitary environment. Now imagine that just beyond the door, a construction crew is tearing up…
A toxic problem was festering beneath the Instagrammy-perfect green landscapes of Lihue, Kauai. For nearly two decades, a major state utility, Hawaii Gas, owned a property that was acting as a slow-motion poison pill for the island’s precious groundwater. The…