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Tin Crisis – Part Three
In this, the third and final article of this series, Martin Hayes looks at the grinding legal processes following the collapse of the ITC...
Martin Hayes
Dec 19, 2018
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Is China's Growth Faltering?
This article was written by Mei Xin Wang. All views and opinions are strictly her own. China’s economic growth has been powering ahead...
Mei Xin Wang
Dec 12, 2018
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Les Evènements and Parlour Games
I can remember as a schoolboy in 1968 watching TV footage of the merry month of May in Paris, when first students, then intellectuals and...
geoffreysambrook
Dec 5, 2018
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Far Away and Long Ago
This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. As one or two recent pieces in this...
Trevor Tarring
Nov 28, 2018
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Tin Crisis – Part Two
This is the second part of Martin Hayes’ story of the Tin Crisis seen through the eyes of a journalist reporting the story. Part Three...
Martin Hayes
Nov 20, 2018
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There's None so Blind…..
I’ve just finished reading a book of compelling interest – “Travellers in the Third Reich”, by Julia Boyd. I understand that not everyone...
geoffreysambrook
Nov 14, 2018
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Salving Consciences
This article was written by Steven Spencer. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. At a time when trade wars threaten and...
Steven Spencer
Nov 7, 2018
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The Clerk, the Finger and the Soviet Union
This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. I just typed that title and immediately wondered:...
David Gaddes
Oct 31, 2018
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Tin Crisis – Part One
Tin Crisis – Part One This article was written by Martin Hayes. In it, he looks with the eyes of a news correspondent at the events...
Martin Hayes
Oct 24, 2018
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Tinxit Brexit
This article was written by John Wolff. All views and opinions are strictly his own. I find the interminable Brexit negotiations keep...
John Wolff
Oct 17, 2018
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Endgame – Chapter Five
Chapter V The deal worked without a hitch. Trucks rolled in to car plants, consumer goods factories, extrusion works and the rest, all...
geoffreysambrook
Oct 12, 2018
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Endgame – Chapter Four
Chapter IV A day later, the deal was agreed. Metal-Exx had agreed to take a quantity of aluminium metal from Arctic Mining in the US – it...
geoffreysambrook
Oct 11, 2018
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Endgame – Chapter Three
Chapter III Obviously, however important Puschkin may have thought himself, Serck couldn’t simply accept the Russian’s schedule....
geoffreysambrook
Oct 10, 2018
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Endgame – Chapter Two
Chapter II Across the other side of the Atlantic, in the Geneva headquarters of Metal-Exx, Max Eisenstadt was metaphorically scratching...
geoffreysambrook
Oct 9, 2018
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Endgame – Chapter One
Chapter I Jason Serck stared at the face looking back at him from the bathroom mirror. There was no running away from it; he was getting...
geoffreysambrook
Oct 8, 2018
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A Minor Metal Merchant's Diary
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Where can I find a UK Steinweg? As it now...
Anthony Lipmann
Oct 3, 2018
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Libor Lies: Part Two
Back in July 2012, in the pages of ‘Metal Bulletin’, I wrote an article entitled ‘Libor Lies’; it was written as the scandal of Libor...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 26, 2018
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Characters versus the Keyboard
This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The LME Dinner will be with us again soon, and...
David Gaddes
Sep 19, 2018
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Infrastructure Developments – Private or Public Enterprise?
By and large, modern political thought doesn’t speak well of the Victorians; not entirely fairly, I feel. I’m not going to stick my head...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 12, 2018
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Mustard Gas, Asda and Trump Tariffs
Before the outbreak of World War One, the UK was largely dependent for zinc on smelters in Germany and, to a lesser degree, the Low...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 5, 2018
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