Dallas, Death – and the Supercycle
I was not a watcher of the 1980s TV soap opera “Dallas” (in fact, I’ve never seen it at all), but I’m sure many readers were. But even...
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Mar 18, 2015
Nickel – Times Still Tough
What to make of the nickel market? This time last year it was roaring up, fuelled by the growing certainty of a ban on the export of ore...
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Mar 11, 2015
Metallgesellschaft Ltd – Epitaph? Or Blueprint?
Nineteenth century Germany produced many industrial powerhouses, in mining, chemicals, manufacturing – in fact, in all sorts of different...
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Mar 4, 2015
Won't Get Fooled Again?
The end game of politics is to be elected (at least in democracies; the technique amongst totalitarians is somewhat different, although,...
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Feb 24, 2015
Bartering Metals (and Lives) in Ukraine
Starting on my own in 1993, one of my first acts was to employ a Russian speaker. Her name was Luba, only recently out of school and...
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Feb 18, 2015
When Tungsten Won Wars
The stories of the Second World War were all about the big battles, the headline events of the clashes of men and materials; the Battle...
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Feb 10, 2015
Taxes; Avoidance, Evasion…and Warehouses
Are rules legally binding? What is evasion? What is avoidance? What has ‘moral repugnance’ got to do with tax bills? At the beginning of...
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Feb 3, 2015
The Samarium File
If you happen to have caught the Netflix wave, or got the box-set, you might have seen House of Cards, the US political satire transposed...
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Jan 28, 2015
Passive Investment? Mmmm…
Market action so far this month has been more than many (frankly, including me) might have expected for the whole of the year. While the...
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Jan 21, 2015
Who's Demonising Whom?
Political leadership has at least as much to do with illusion as reality; what the adage about fooling people really means is as long as...
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Jan 14, 2015
Cold War II – an Alternative Perspective
After seeing China in the headlines for a long time, the plummeting oil price and the sinking rouble have put Russia right back in the...
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Jan 7, 2015
Why not Learn from Other People's Experiences?
Financial exchanges in the US and the UK were for years and years actually quite different sorts of animal; in the US, the profit motive...
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