NYSE trading floor with screens showing stocks sliding as rising U.S. Treasury yields and Walmart (WMT) earnings pressure risk assets on August 20, 2026.
Robert Friedland, the billionaire mining entrepreneur and founder of Ivanhoe Mines (IVN.TO, IVPAF), has framed the copper challenge in language built for a boardroom, and perhaps a geological time scale. His warning: to sustain roughly 3% global economic growth, humanity may need…