Year: 2019

Fossil Fuels
Bradley McFadden

Hydrocarbon: A Compound We Use, A Compound We Need

Over the past few months, we’ve seen some of the most extraordinary events from the anti-fossil fuel/extinction rebellion movement.  We have protestors jumping on planes: Gluing themselves to roads With one protestor even gluing her breasts to the road – 10 points for dedication to the cause to her. From

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Resources
Jamie Keech

The Evolution of Mining Finance As Told By Doug Silver

“You never learn when you’re successful, you only learn when you do things wrong…so I’m extremely well educated.” Doug Silver, PM at Orion Resource Partners & Jamie Keech at the Beaver Creek Previous Metals Summit The Man In The Mining Hall Of Fame Doug Silver is a portfolio manager at

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Resources
Jamie Keech

Mickey Fulp: the Mercenary Geologist

“I know the CEO of every company I own…… Looking people in the eyes is very important. I have a few trick questions up my sleeve that will separate the pretenders from contenders.” Mickey Fulp runs a newsletter called the Mercenary Geologist, it is a large well-established newsletter in the

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Greta Thunberg Sailing Towards Public Criticism

Move over Tom Cruise, Scientology is no longer “the bomb”. Instead, we’ve a new religion in town. So grab your vegan dinner, and book your yachts, because this one has all the basic human traits that make religions successful. Professor of Psychology, Steven Reiss, over at the Ohio State University,

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The Ultimate Cognitive Dissonance Trap was Just laid

From wikipedia Cognitive dissonance – In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. This discomfort is triggered by a situation in which a person’s belief clashes with new evidence perceived by

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General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

Social Inequality – Eat The Rich. THIS is How We Get There

A popular story told is that inequality is a bad thing and brings social discontent. That’s the wrong way to look at it. Inequality itself isn’t the problem. In fact I’d say it’s necessary for society to progress. Let me explain. When we see our fellow man working hard and

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Resources
Jamie Keech

Finding the Best People & Betting the Jockey

The overarching set of skills that makes someone great, that lets them outperform their peers, perhaps exponentially, are: Do they have a track record? Have they spent time in the trenches? And, do they have emotional intelligence, are they self-aware? There is a prevailing ethos in the mining sector of

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News – What are we reading?

Welcome back, I hope that you are all finding these articles as interesting as we do. This week we will only be discussing three articles as two of them are a little bit lengthy and one is an interview. Here is what we found exciting this week and some thoughts

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