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Feb 12, 2014
QE, the Precursor to a Black Swan?
In an earlier article, “Is QE Sharpening its Teeth?”, we discussed the underlying reasons why QE was used and the intended consequences...
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geoffreysambrook
Feb 5, 2014
Is QE Sharpening its Teeth?
The world’s central banks – with the Fed, the Bank of England, the ECB and the Japanese to the fore – have been throwing a party for some...
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geoffreysambrook
Jan 29, 2014
Fixing the Fix
What’s in a name? Deutsche Bank have recently withdrawn from their membership of the London Gold Fix and the search is on to find a...
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geoffreysambrook
Jan 22, 2014
Money Makes the World go Round
“Money makes the world go round” sang Liza Minelli in the film version of Cabaret, based on Christopher Isherwood’s ‘Goodbye to Berlin’....
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geoffreysambrook
Jan 15, 2014
What Should a Modern Star-Spangled Scotchman Have Given this Christmas
One big fat book unlikely to have dropped into your Christmas stocking this year would be David Nasaw’s biography of Andrew Carnegie...
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geoffreysambrook
Jan 8, 2014
Human Rights and Metal Warehousing
Over the years of its existence, the LME has been involved in plenty of legal controversy – the Tin Crisis, for example, or the Sumitomo...
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geoffreysambrook
Jan 2, 2014
A Sinking Ship
Ever since the 2008 financial crisis collaterally damaged the hull of the financial “supertanker,” overly indebted governments have been...
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geoffreysambrook
Dec 19, 2013
Alice in Christmas Wonderland – a Cautionary Tale
Alice has seen some amazing things as she’s moved around in Wonderland. How could she forget that tea-party where she met those...
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geoffreysambrook
Dec 11, 2013
Who'd be a Forecaster……
During the summer, I enjoy sailing my boat around the Solent and western Channel, so I have a natural interest in weather forecasts....
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geoffreysambrook
Dec 4, 2013
Even Refs Apologise Sometimes
A week or so ago, Premiership Football referees’ Chief, Mike Riley, apologised for a poor decision in the match between West Bromwich...
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geoffreysambrook
Nov 27, 2013
Value
With all the monetary instability we are facing on a global scale at the present time, should we continue to trust the role of central...
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geoffreysambrook
Nov 21, 2013
Politics and Mining – a Grubby Mixture
For those who revel in a juicy courtroom drama, there’s a fascinating tale unfolding in the High Court in London at the moment. It’s a...
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geoffreysambrook
Nov 14, 2013
Benchmark Blues
The Libor rate rigging scandal has followed a familiar pattern. The banks agree to pay large fines. Emails are produced as evidence of...
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geoffreysambrook
Nov 7, 2013
Price Fixings….
If you were designing a price discovery mechanism which would be used as the reference for trillions of dollars (or pounds, or euros) of...
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geoffreysambrook
Nov 1, 2013
Of New Contracts and Commitment of Traders
Amongst all the he dissatisfaction with the LME’s aluminium market expressed by some of the big beasts of the aluminium world there have...
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geoffreysambrook
Oct 21, 2013
Dagong Downgrade – Sometimes Little Ripples Become Big Waves
Amongst all the debate, analysis and comment surrounding the tortured attempts of US executive and legislators to agree how to reconcile...
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geoffreysambrook
Oct 15, 2013
LME Dinner 2013 – Reading the Runes
Well, there’s another LME Dinner out of the way. The (quasi-)competitive ‘it’s my 30th’, ‘my 35th’, ‘my 29th’and so on amongst my...
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geoffreysambrook
Oct 3, 2013
High-Frequency Trading – Cost or benefit
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about glitches in computer trading (see Lord Copper 3rd September 2013 “Fat Fingers and...
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geoffreysambrook
Sep 26, 2013
Gold – An Inconvenient Truth
“Bad money drives out good” – Gresham’s Law was named after Sir Thomas Gresham, a sixteenth-century financial agent of the English Crown...
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geoffreysambrook
Sep 19, 2013
The Trouble with Addiction
The problem with addictive substances is that while they may be pleasant, they are also addictive. Global monetary policy setters are...
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