March 29, 2024
Investment

New Exemplary Forestry Investment Fund Makes First Acquisition

Stockhill Forest near Wells, August 1, 2013. (Photo by Claire Gillo/PhotoPlus Magazine/Future via Getty Images) Future via Getty Images A new investment fund, which aims to generate both environmental and financial returns for investors, has made its first acquisition in Maine. The Exemplary Forestry Investment Fund has bought the 3,000-acre Scammon Ridge Headwaters forest from

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Crypto

Crypto miners are shaking Texans down like they’re the Mafia (Opinion)

Cryptocurrency miners should not be rewarded at all by Gov. Greg Abbott and the state of Texas for creating a crisis with our energy grid, a Chronicle letter writer argues.  Dreamstime/TNS Crypto con Regarding “Mega-cartoon: How crypto miners raised Texans’ electric bill (Opinion),” (Dec. 30): Crypto miners are getting a sweetheart deal from the state

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Loans

America’s negative equity hotspots exposed: Fascinating study reveals where homeowners are most at risk of going underwater on their loans

Nearly half of American states are becoming negative equity hotspots with as many as one in 20 homeowners going ‘underwater’ on their mortgages, a new study suggests. Overall US households saw their equity increase by $1.1 trillion in the third quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, reversing a trend seen at

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