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...
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Mei Xin Wang
- Dec 12, 2018
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...
Lord Copper
- Dec 5, 2018
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...
Trevor Tarring
- Nov 28, 2018
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...
Martin Hayes
- Nov 20, 2018
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...
Lord Copper
- Nov 14, 2018
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...
Steven Spencer
- Nov 7, 2018
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...
David Gaddes
- Oct 31, 2018
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:...
Martin Hayes
- Oct 24, 2018
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...
John Wolff
- Oct 17, 2018
Tinxit Brexit
This article was written by John Wolff. All views and opinions are strictly his own. I find the interminable Brexit negotiations keep...
Lord Copper
- Oct 12, 2018
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...
Lord Copper
- Oct 11, 2018
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...
Lord Copper
- Oct 10, 2018
Endgame – Chapter Three
Chapter III Obviously, however important Puschkin may have thought himself, Serck couldn’t simply accept the Russian’s schedule....
Lord Copper
- Oct 9, 2018
Endgame – Chapter Two
Chapter II Across the other side of the Atlantic, in the Geneva headquarters of Metal-Exx, Max Eisenstadt was metaphorically scratching...
Lord Copper
- Oct 8, 2018
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...
Anthony Lipmann
- Oct 3, 2018
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...
Lord Copper
- Sep 26, 2018
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...
David Gaddes
- Sep 19, 2018
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...
Lord Copper
- Sep 12, 2018
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...
Lord Copper
- Sep 5, 2018
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...
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