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Byron King

A Harvard-trained geologist and former aide to the United States Chief of Naval Operations, Byron King is our resident oil and energy expert. Byron has been a frequent guest on CNN and Fox News, and we are proud to have him on board as the editor of Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor. This "old rock hound" uses his expertise and connections in global resource industries to bring you the very best opportunities in energy, mining and precious metals.

  1. Energy & Scarcity Investor

    Depleting Uranium: It’ll Hit Hard… and Benefit This Developer • May 15, 2012

    “China’s number of nuclear power stations is set to rise from the present 13 to 70 by 2020, and then to more than 120.” And we’ve got just the company to take advantage of the coming Uranium supply crunch. Let’s take a look……Read more…

  2. Energy & Scarcity Investor

    Great News From Focus Graphite • May 7, 2012

    This graphite company is not just a great mining play with super-high-grade ore. It also offers a “tech” upside. Its leapfrogging the competition, signing a licensing agreement with a Canadian energy giant create lithium batteries. …Read more…

  3. Energy & Scarcity Investor

    100 Years of Money Supply, and Updates: HRE, RMC, REO, ICP • May 4, 2012

    The market is so ignorant, and holds such disdain toward fundamental value, that you are getting the gold mine project and the copper mine — formerly the largest in Europe — for free. Amazing. …Read more…

  4. Energy & Scarcity Investor

    Waiting for a Down Market to Turn… • April 27, 2012

    We’re approaching a time when resource scarcity will begin to bite world economies where it hurts. As an ESI reader, you’re way ahead of the crowd. When the cycle turns, you’ll already be on the inside, while everybody else is out there in the rain, standing at the rope line.…Read more…

  5. Energy & Scarcity Investor

    Electric and Technology Metals • April 20, 2012

    “In 1978,” said the man at the podium, “the world’s best magnets were made out of samarium and cobalt. But then,” he continued, “there was a revolution in the African nation of Zaire. Cobalt prices shot up from about $4 per pound to over $50 per pound.” The Cobalt Crisis “With cobalt so costly,” the …Read more…

  6. Energy & Scarcity Investor

    Friday the 13th! Remember the Titanic… and Other Investment Comments • April 13, 2012

    I’m coming back from a trip to Colombia, where I visited a superb uranium play. Let’s take a look at uranium and the fundamentals behind some currently undervalued stocks in the ESI portfolio. Plus the ABCD’s of investing… …Read more…

  7. Energy & Scarcity Investor

    Buying Opportunities in the Land of the Low • April 6, 2012

    Now is the time to sure up your positions in some seriously under-valued stocks. Here’s a company funding significant — and I mean SIGNIFICANT! — research into refining graphene and new applications. Any one of these tech ideas could become the foundation for an entire industry. Meanwhile, the “made in USA” aspect of this RE play is attracting serious interest from the policymakers in Washington. Let’s take a look……Read more…