"That's right, it's Glencore Strata!" Cinnabar. Conrad said with a bitter face.

Pedro on the side said: "In the past two years, the international mining environment has been very bad, from gold to oil to non-ferrous metals and ferrous metals, all of which have encountered a cold winter that has been rare for decades. Major mining companies are desperately shrinking their business in order to protect themselves. However, there are also a lot of robbers who have gone on a rampage during this period, and while there is nothing wrong with this kind of robbery, for us traditional mining companies, they are destroying the infrastructure of the entire mining industry. ”

Tang Feng nodded and said, "I know this situation, and Glencore Strata is the most excessive. ”

Glencore Strata, headquartered in Barr, Switzerland, is the world's largest commodities trader. The company has a wide range of businesses, from the initial physical marketing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, to other minerals, crude oil and petroleum products, to the sale of agricultural products, and later to energy products such as coal. Glencore's business scope covers production, procurement, processing, smelting, transportation, storage, financing, supply and sale of metals and minerals, energy products and agricultural products.

It can be said that on this planet, there is hardly anything that Glencore does not dare to buy and sell.

If Glencore has a wide range of business, it is not said, after all, people are engaged in commodity trade, and naturally what makes money is what people are doing. But this company is in close profigue with its founder, Mark Brown. Richie, like that, is a true lunatic.

Mark. Richie is an American, and he's famous because this guy created a very offbeat but very effective way of trading - the "battle trade" model. That is, to obtain trade rights from countries in a turbulent situation, and then through various legal and illegal means, to dump the goods in that country, or to dump the scarce goods from abroad to that country. Make huge profits from it.

This form of trade may seem awesome, but in essence it is an act of robbery and is spurned by people all over the world.

Mark. Rich started out by working with others, using this method of almost robbery to make a lot of money, and then after he broke up with his partner, he began to use this method of trade himself. Continue to reap profits from volatile countries around the world.

Mark. Rich's trade tenet is four words - unscrupulous! He is like a combination of a crocodile, an African hyena, a Norse wolf, and a Siberian tiger, and if it is profitable, then he can even sell his own soul to Satan.

His battle to fame was to ignore the tension between the United States and Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis, and during the US embargo on Iran, he risked his life to trade oil and other materials with Iran, transported the urgently needed materials in Iran into Iran, and at the same time transported Iran's domestic crude oil to Europe and the United States, thus making a windfall.

Later, this guy cooperated with Cuba, Libya and other countries, and made a fortune in these countries.

This makes Mark. Richie's fame skyrocketed. A lot of traders are actively following this madman, and Mark. Richie has become a mentor to dozens of famous traders.

Mark. During this period, Rich created the crude oil spot trading market and became the "king of crude oil" in many people's mouths.

Of course, his trade method has also caused controversy among many people, making him the most controversial trader in the world since the eighties of the twentieth century.

Someone like Mark. Rich's approach to this kind of people thinks that Mark. Rich dared to break the economic blockade of the international powers against the weak. But some people like it, some people hate it, and these disgust Mark. Richie's people include Mark. Ridge's home country - the United States.

Because Mark. Rich's disregard for the U.S. government led to the legendary businessman being wanted by the U.S. Department of Justice for 17 years. And in the meantime, Mark. Rich was disqualified as a U.S. citizen on a conviction of "treason." Honorably became the most wanted white-collar criminal ever caught by the U.S. Department of Justice.

But Mark. Rich did not restrain himself from the decision of the US Department of Justice, on the contrary, the guy became even crazier. The collapse of the former Soviet Union, so that Mark. Richie's way of fighting trade allowed him and his disciples to rot in this piece. The vast country of defeat is like a fish in water; Then, Mark. Ritchie and his disciples continued to move on to other countries such as Iraq, Venezuela, and Nigeria, which were large oil producers and in turmoil, with huge profits from the former Soviet Union. All became Mark. Richie's goal.

In Mark. Led by Ritchie, his disciples resorted to bribes, threats, and even assassinations in order to obtain sufficient resources, and reaped huge profits in these already chaotic countries.

It's a sad fact that Mark. The reason why Richie was able to do so well was so popular. He was wanted and could still live in a lake house in the Swiss countryside for 17 years, and his disciples were still able to open a large number of legitimate companies all over the world, including the United States, and one of the fundamental reasons was because of the backing of the big oil companies in the United States.

Mark. In the eighties and nineties of the last century, the shortage of international crude oil made the big oil companies in the United States in urgent need of crude oil, but those big oil companies were unwilling to use any bad means to obtain crude oil, because they cherished their feathers and were afraid of dirty hands, so the dirty work and tiring work in the eyes of the big oil companies were all handed over to Mark. Rich and his disciples came to do it.

It is for this reason that Mark. Ricky has been able to live like a fish in water, even if this guy has evaded as much as $9 billion in taxes, and even if this guy will receive up to 325 years in prison once arrested by the US government, this guy is still alive and well.

Like Mark. How good can a company built by a controversial person like Richie be?

That's right, Glencore's predecessor was Mark. Rich single-handedly created Mark. Rich Fund Company, except that in '94, Mark . Rich sold his shares to the company, which was subsequently renamed Glencore.

But no matter how the name is changed, this company has left Mark on its body. Richie is deeply imprinted. You know, the current CEO of Glencore, Ivan. Although Glencore became a billionaire after Glencore's IPO, Glaserberg joined Mark Brown 20 years ago in 1984 as an intern. Richie's company.

So while Mark. Ritchie had passed away in 2013, but these Glencore executives, including Glarsenberg, had inherited the name of Marc. Richie's style of doing things that asks for money rather than life and does whatever it takes to achieve an end. With it, Glencore has become such a distinctive company! (To be continued.) )