Month: July 2018

Facebook Face-Plants And Rats Keep Jumping Ship

Greetings, This is a short summary of some interesting things that caught our beady eye this week. All of these have serious implications… otherwise I’d not consider them, but this is simply a lighthearted look. In case you missed it… How I was reminded of Trump’s foreign policy strategy from

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Insider Weekly: The Single Best $100 Oil Trade

Hello, and welcome back! Lake Oswego, Oregon. Hat tip to member Preston. And this one… Not a sunset but a sunrise. A few minutes after I took this, the sun burst over the top of the mountain last week. Mt. Ruapehu in my neck of the woods while skiing and

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Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

Punch ‘Em In The Face! Do It Now, Do It Quick!

Vinny was a tall, skinny Dutch guy I’d met while backpacking around Canada when I was 18. We became firm friends and kept in touch for many years. I, toiling amongst the pointy shoes in the city of London, and he, managing a family business in Holland. This meant that

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RI Podcast
Jamie Keech

How To Deploy Venture Capital In The Resource Sector

“We find people who are very talented and we work with those people, and help out wherever we can. We focus the company on the core competency of that individual that we’ve partnered with… These people that we work with tend to have the same philosophy we have with respect

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Insider
Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Time To Get Long Agriculture?

Hello and welcome back. Sheesh… what a week. But first: LA sunset courtesy of Insider member Kasra. Magical! And then one that looks like a watercolour painting from subscriber Michael from Idaho. Taken in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I’ve never touched drugs in my life, but I imagine this is

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Skin In The Game

When last did you really need help from complete strangers? Last week my wife, daughter, and a friend headed down to the beach to ride the horses (yup, the same ones I wrote about here). To get to the beach from where the hay-burners are kept is about a kilometre

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The Next Big Score…?

To want to own gold can be a strange and terrible affliction. What incites such an urge in the otherwise sensible and rational investor? Why do we listen as the would be “gold guru” in his poorly fitting suit, hair slicked back in a twirl of pomade, climbs to the

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It’s Coming… Resource Nationalism

Early 2012 Argentina’s oil industry was controlled by Repsol, the Spanish energy giant, through YPF, its local subsidiary. By the end of the year, this was no longer the case. By then President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner’s leftist government had nationalised the oil sector, stealing YPF with the stroke of a

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