don't you ask Marc Faber or better yet, call ECU, read through the huge volume of info on this forum and let us know the findings of *your* research. If you advocate only buying a stock on "cold logic" then why did you buy ECU in the first place? Your initial research must have concluded the good parts outweighed the bad so why the sudden about face? What portion of your "cold logic" concludes becoming cash flow positive is a bad thing? Isn't having proved that ore can be mined at a profit (despite having been sourced from "ratty veins") the ultimate measure of success of any mine? Last but not least of all, it is not logical to conclude the US Government is out to get Murphy by whacking ECU just because it might be so. That's not the basis of cold logic either, but if you have clear evidence then please do share with this forum and especially the company ;)

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