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Anthony Lipmann
Oct 7, 2020
Why are banks getting out of commodities?
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. If there is one thing I learnt after 41 years...
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geoffreysambrook
Sep 30, 2020
Career Epitaph
On the tombstone of a disturbing number of previously successful careers could be inscribed the epitaph “Why did you want to sell...
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David Gaddes
Sep 16, 2020
It's a People's Business
This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Most of us who have worked in the metals...
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geoffreysambrook
Sep 9, 2020
A Breaking Wave
Martin Hayes and I have both written on here before about the likelihood (or not) of the LME Ring ever returning to our lives. It’s now...
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geoffreysambrook
Aug 26, 2020
Though every prospect pleases, and only man is vile
In PG Wodehouse’s ‘Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves’, Bertie Wooster is once again compelled (for reasons far too convoluted to go into here) to...
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Martin Hayes
Aug 19, 2020
Time and a Word: Change for the Metals World
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Evolution is a natural process, and a...
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Bill Prast
Aug 12, 2020
Is it all worth it?
This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Once upon a time, long ago and in a land...
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geoffreysambrook
Aug 5, 2020
Country Rhodes
Truly, this time we seem to have fallen down the rabbit hole to a world where nothing is how it seems, where Humpy Dumpty tells us “when...
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Fred Piechoczek
Jul 29, 2020
What's the value of paper?
This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. I have often wondered what money is...
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Trevor Tarring
Jul 22, 2020
Discovery and Use
This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Lord Copper’s recent – as usual –...
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Suzannah Lipman
Jul 15, 2020
Trading with Japan
This article was written by Suzannah Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly her own. Trading with Japan – A Family Affair...
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Anthony Lipmann
Jul 8, 2020
What is the point of books?
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The year is 1991 and I am in Tallinn...
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Steven Spencer
Jul 1, 2020
Keeping Elephants off the Track
This article was written by Steven Spencer. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. It’s been three months now and by...
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geoffreysambrook
Jun 24, 2020
The Passing Bell
We’ve written a couple of times here before about the closure and (potential) re-opening of the LME Ring, and speculated to an extent on...
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geoffreysambrook
Jun 17, 2020
All the good men this world's ever known
“When all the stars are falling down, Into the sea and on the ground, And angry voices carry on the wind. A beam of light will fill your...
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geoffreysambrook
Jun 10, 2020
Flash as they come
So statue-destroying has reached a provincial British city, as Edward Colston was toppled from his plinth and dumped into the river by a...
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geoffreysambrook
Jun 3, 2020
For Whom the Bell Tolls
It gives me absolutely no pleasure whatsoever to write this, but I believe we are approaching the time when we may have to begin to think...
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Anthony Lipmann
May 27, 2020
On a Marché sur la Lune
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Lord Copper threw down the challenge....
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Martin Hayes
May 20, 2020
Time for another MoU?
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Last week, US aluminium giant Alcoa Corp...
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geoffreysambrook
May 13, 2020
Les Gaulois Irreductibles
In the strange world created by the coronavirus swirling around the world, some other items of news have been getting less attention...
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