World’s Top Mining Companies Fuel Consumption Equals How Many Earth’s Population Of Human Energy?

In a never-before-seen chart, the world’s largest mining companies’ amount of fuel consumption would equal a staggering amount of human workers.  Unfortunately, there aren’t enough people on the earth to provide the same amount of energy consumed as fuel by the top miners.  Not even close…

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ConocoPhillips-Concho Merger: A Union Guaranteed To Optimize Investor Losses

More often than not, mergers are done to benefit the company and not the investors.  I believe the merger of ConocoPhillips and Concho Resources fits into this category.  Interestingly, ConocoPhillips decided to go on with the merger even though its own domestic oil and gas sector is struggling…

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Metals & Market Update OCT 19th: Silver Investment Demand Will Be Main Driver Of Future Price

With the broader markets selling off today and the precious metals being off their highs, I thought it would be a good idea to do Metals & Market Update.  I also include charts and information on why silver investment demand, not industrial demand, will be the leading driver of the silver…

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