Americans spent over $109 billion on lottery tickets last year, which is more than they spent on movies, books, concerts and sports tickets - combined.
BREAKING NEWS: PM Mark Carney set to announce a sovereign wealth fund, a major shift in how Canada invests in its economy.
This could be a game changer for agri-food. More capital for infrastructure, processing, and supply chains would increase competitiveness globally.
It will only benefit agriculture if agri-food is treated as a national priority—not an afterthought.
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MTV officially shut down its 24-hour music channels yesterday. They ended their final broadcast with 'Video killed the radio star' by The Buggles, the very first video broadcasted by MTV on August 1st, 1981.
JANUARY 15: THE $9 BILLION PURGE
MicroStrategy owns 649,870 Bitcoin. Worth $56.7 billion. That’s 77% of everything they have.
On January 15, 2026 MSCI kicks them out of every major stock index. Not maybe. Not probably. It’s already decided.
Here’s what happens next:
$9 billion of forced selling hits the market within 72 hours. Pension funds. Index trackers. ETFs. They don’t get to choose. The algorithm forces them to sell. Every single share.
The company’s premium is already gone. It used to trade 2-3x above its Bitcoin value. Now? 1.11x. The lowest since 2020. The magic died before the announcement even drops.
Wall Street just drew a line: Bitcoin treasury companies aren’t stocks anymore. They’re funds. And funds don’t belong in the S&P 500 or Russell indexes.
This matters because Michael Saylor built a machine that let regular investors buy Bitcoin through their brokerage accounts. It worked for five years. That machine breaks permanently in 23 days.
The reflexivity loop that powered everything: raise money from stocks, buy Bitcoin, stock price goes up, raise more money, buy more Bitcoin. That cycle is dead. When you trade at net asset value, you can’t raise premium capital anymore.
JPMorgan’s November 20 research note confirmed it. The math doesn’t work anymore. The company that proved corporations could hold Bitcoin also proved the market will never let them disguise it as equity.
What comes after: MicroStrategy / Strategy Inc becomes a closed-end Bitcoin fund trading at a 10-20% discount. Forever. Just like Grayscale before spot ETFs existed. Liquidity collapses 60%. Volume disappears.
BlackRock wins. Every dollar that would have gone into MicroStrategy flows into Bitcoin ETFs instead.
The corporate Bitcoin era does not end with regulation or hacks or crashes. It ends with index methodology. The most boring document in finance just rewrote the entire playbook.
The funeral is 15th January 2026!
Read the deep dive article here - https://t.co/6MZctsDxoz
How is it possible that a tube of steel that moves a product everyone on the planet uses in ever increasing quantities, whose revenue accounts for 20% of Canadian exports, and whose increasing capacity could lift 100,000's of Canadians out of poverty, became so controversial???
@JoshCrumb@tracyalloway Dude. What if you had an exchange platform that is the ‘YouTube’ of exchanges. Parameters in a box for those that want to list whatever. Brilliant.