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geoffreysambrook
Aug 11, 2021
Keep it simple
The Victorians (as in nineteenth-century British, not inhabitants of the Australian state) have a reputation for being repressed,...
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Martin Hayes
Jul 28, 2021
Bring on the new contracts
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. This week saw the London Metal Exchange...
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geoffreysambrook
Jul 21, 2021
Schrödinger's Ring?
I guess most readers of this will be familiar with the thought experiment of Schrödinger’s Cat, even if, like me, as non-quantum...
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geoffreysambrook
Jul 7, 2021
Put the fizzy wine from north-eastern France on ice!
Most of us only know Lord Acton for one notable quotation, but he was in fact an interesting man for far more than that. A confidant of...
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geoffreysambrook
Jun 23, 2021
Will the machine stop?
If I mention E M Forster, what comes to your mind? A Room with a View, Howard’s End and A Passage to India? Lush Merchant Ivory films,...
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Anthony Lipmann
Jun 17, 2021
Will G7 vaccine promises help Zambia?
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. With seagulls under instruction from...
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geoffreysambrook
Jun 16, 2021
Muffle the lych bell!
So, my expectation that the LME Ring was doomed turns out – for the moment at any rate – to be wrong. After the sounding of the passing...
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Martin Hayes
Jun 9, 2021
Compromise – not a dirty word?
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. All being well, the LME ring will...
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Bill Prast
Jun 2, 2021
Somewhere over the Rainbow
This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. In the rainbow of carbon-neutral scenarios...
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geoffreysambrook
May 26, 2021
Finding a new cause
It seems now that Cecil Rhodes is set to stay up in his eerie on the front of Oriel College, Oxford, looking out at the High Street,...
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Anthony Lipmann
May 19, 2021
What made the crypto piggy bank grunt?
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. When I visited NASA about 20 years...
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geoffreysambrook
May 12, 2021
Change Happens
I’ve just spent the last few days reading the book (The World for Sale, by Jack Farchy and Javier Blas) that Anthony Lipmann reviewed...
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Martin Hayes
May 5, 2021
LME Changes – the Beat Goes On
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. And so it goes on. Whether to...
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Anthony Lipmann
Apr 21, 2021
Walking over dead bodies
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. At the heart of a new book, The World...
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Bill Prast
Apr 14, 2021
History……
This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The recent enthusiasm for revisionist...
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geoffreysambrook
Apr 7, 2021
Hold the hair shirt
‘There are classes of men in the world who bear more the same relation to society at large, that the wheels do to a coach: and are just...
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Anthony Lipmann
Mar 31, 2021
Exit, stage left. (But please don't build a monument.)
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. ‘All the world’s a stage, And all the...
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Richard Horswill
Mar 24, 2021
The Inflation Genie
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The current monetary supposition...
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geoffreysambrook
Mar 17, 2021
Option Master
It may be a surprise to some of the current generation of LME traders, but it’s not that long ago – well, a generation, I guess – that...
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geoffreysambrook
Mar 10, 2021
Lord of the Ring
We’ve written quite a lot here recently about the LME Ring. But after all, what is it? A circle of red leather chairs with a bunch of...
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