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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
geoffreysambrook
May 6, 2020
When Rubber meets Road
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions offered are strictly his own. In a previous article, I wrote about a...
Anthony Lipmann
Apr 29, 2020
How the Covid crisis propelled Germanium into the limelight
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Cometh the hour, cometh the metal....
geoffreysambrook
Apr 22, 2020
Munch's Spaniel
I’ve never really liked Edvard Munch’s The Scream; I don’t know why – somebody else thought it was worth $120 million a short while ago –...
Richard Horswill
Apr 15, 2020
Dollar Melt-Up
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The very same financial schemes and...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 8, 2020
Quomodo sedet sola civitas
“Quomodo sedet sola civitas”: so wailed Jeremiah in the Book of Lamentations, as he surveyed the city of Jerusalem besieged by the forces...
Martin Hayes
Apr 1, 2020
When will the Bell ring again?
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The ring falls silent…..but for how...
Anthony Lipmann
Mar 25, 2020
Viral Ponderings
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. ‘Only when the tide goes out do you discover...
Trevor Tarring
Mar 18, 2020
Do you remember Hamanaka?
This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions are strictly his own. It’s only 25 years since the closing chapters of...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 11, 2020
Censorship?
Censorship comes in many forms. Perhaps the burning of books that don’t fit the regime’s world view, as in Nazi Germany, or maybe the...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 4, 2020
Fear and Greed
Ah, Fear and Greed; those two drivers of market behaviour. As Kipling almost said, “If You can meet with Fear and Greed, And treat those...
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