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AI investors will demand a return sooner or later

It’s too soon to call what happened last week to artificial intelligence stocks a correction. Call it instead a reminder: Hype about new technologies is an inevitable human temptation, and sometimes it pays off, but eventually investors demand returns on capital. That’s the way to think about the disconcerting market swings of recent days. Many tech shares have taken a dive, sometimes by large percentages. That has dragged down the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 index, which has come to be dominated by those companies. Our advice is to go for a relaxing walk this weekend instead of checking ...

Forest Products Week highlights benefits the forests provide

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources joins the nation in celebrating Forest Products Week, which extends through Saturday. Wisconsin’s forests cover nearly 17 million acres of public and private forested land – about half of the state’s land. Many of those forests provide raw material to the forest products industry. Forest Products Week recognizes the people who work in and care for our forests, the industry workers who make the forest products we depend on and the many ways forest products contribute to Wisconsin’s economy and quality of life. “From paper ...

Time to hate wolves in the UP — again?

BARB: In the Sept. 21 Daily Mining Gazette of Houghton, I read of legislation proposed in the state House to require hunting and trapping of gray wolves in Michigan if and when the species is removed from the federal list of endangered species. This is not the first time, and probably not the last, for such a proposal. What is new, of course, is that voters go to the polls next month and will see the names of the sponsor and co-sponsor, respectively, of the proposed bill — state Reps. Dave Prestin, R-Cedar River, and Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock. Prestin’s news release implies that an ...