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leave a commentnotice China & Brazil’s frequent appearance on many of the resource lists. They definitely have the tools to become major exporters, yet they are growing so much that they are consuming it all themselves. This is why there are so many emerging market bulls on there.
In particular, well-known investor Jim Rogers is bullish on agriculture. If you’re unfamiliar with Rogers, he ran the Quantum fund with George Soros back in the day and put up some of the most amazing performance numbers around. Here’s Rogers thoughts on agriculture, etc: http://www.marketfolly.com/2009/03/summary-of-jim-rogers-recent-portfolio.html
Jay
Where is palm oil?
“US leads the world in soybean production?”
That’s news to me, quite interesting as it would be interesting to see whether the consumption is mostly local or whether it’s exported.
It’d be nice if you had a similar chart like this for consumption patterns across the world as well.
Yes, US is a big soybean producer. Yes ago, while I was in China, one of the very first american products we got after two countries estalished diplomatic relationship, is soybeans. We loved it.
Why is copper not listed? It is crucial to electronics and electrical infrastructure, and so much more. Copper is so precious thieves will steal wire to sell it on the metals market; it at least deserves a mention, especially if rubber is mentioned.
Great!!
what about the new ressources? lithium? sun?
it would be interesting to extend this overview into the past 10 or 100 years to see if in modern times there has been a correlation between a country’s resources and development.
@OnlineTV, great idea for the consumption patterns map, we will definitely consider it.
Why is there a seperation between Canada’s proviences and territories?
Uhm Wood?
Amazing how a simple chart can bring home the facts we often overlook. Obviously, our foreign relations problems are not limited to the Middle East.
We’d better find ways to stay friends with Canada and Brazil and to make nice with Russia and even (ugh!) China.
US –soybeans? hard to believe
Other point of view should include the percentage of natural resources vs population.
What about meat?
Excellent representation of many world commodities. However, the map itself takes a backseat to the information and makes it pretty confusing. I like the idea, but it could have been executed better.
Great informative mini mint map of all countries..
coffee not mentioned but 2nd resource exchanged in world after oil ..
FYI – silver – Peru incorrectly points to Columbia.
What Mark said. Peru is 1st in silver, but the line points to Colombia. It would be nice if you could fix it.
Cheers.
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