Mining Stock Education · Friday, September 4, 2026
Bill Powers shared an experience with an unresponsive junior mining CEO and discussed the potential for increased arrogance among executives as a bull market progresses. Rick Rule agreed that arrogance often correlates with inexperience, predicting that the least experienced individuals will exhibit the most arrogance relative to their influence.
“as this bull market ramps up you're going to see even a greater degree of arrogance”
“Sadly the greatest escalation and arrogance is that you're going to see from the retail investor who participates in a bull market and confuses it with brains”
“The least experienced people will be the most arrogant relative to their influence”