Farewell, unloved 2021
It would be difficult to make the case for 2021 having been a ‘good’ year. Maybe the grape harvest will prove to have been a good one,...
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geoffreysambrook
Dec 15, 2021
Nostradamus, Oscar Wilde and incompetents
I’ve never ploughed through the thousand-odd quatrains that make up Nostradamus’ Les Prophéties, although I have skimmed through odd...
geoffreysambrook
Nov 24, 2021
When the wind don't blow
Beautiful late autumn weather in southern England currently – clear skies, crisp air and barely a breath of wind. Ah, wait though. No...
Richard Horswill
Nov 11, 2021
Money from the Shadows
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The term ‘shadow money’ suggests...
David Gaddes
Nov 3, 2021
Save the core for the Floor
This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. It’s been a while since my last...
geoffreysambrook
Oct 27, 2021
The Art of the Possible
“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best”, said Otto von Bismarck, the man who achieved the...
Martin Hayes
Oct 14, 2021
LME Week 2021 – Back in Town
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. After the cancellation last year caused...
geoffreysambrook
Oct 6, 2021
Tin Master
A few months ago, when I wrote an article here about the likely closure of the LME Ring (obviously before its Lazarus-like revival….), I...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 29, 2021
Energy hysteria and metal prices
When I wrote last week that we needed to see some input from the grown-ups into the question of energy policy and security, I was working...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 22, 2021
Energy security: where are the grown-ups?
For the last eighteen months or so, we have all been bombarded by politicians, media, Twitter and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all with a...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 8, 2021
The Return of the Ring
So, the theatre is back. After eighteen months of silence and gathering dust, the trading floor in Finsbury Square is again echoing to...
geoffreysambrook
Aug 25, 2021
Pax Britannica, pax Americana
This is only tangentially related to metals today – wait to the end for the connection – but the mayhem being reported from Afghanistan...
Martin Hayes
Aug 12, 2021
And then there were eight….
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Hot on the heels of the LME confirming...
geoffreysambrook
Aug 11, 2021
Keep it simple
The Victorians (as in nineteenth-century British, not inhabitants of the Australian state) have a reputation for being repressed,...
Martin Hayes
Jul 28, 2021
Bring on the new contracts
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. This week saw the London Metal Exchange...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 21, 2021
Schrödinger's Ring?
I guess most readers of this will be familiar with the thought experiment of Schrödinger’s Cat, even if, like me, as non-quantum...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 7, 2021
Put the fizzy wine from north-eastern France on ice!
Most of us only know Lord Acton for one notable quotation, but he was in fact an interesting man for far more than that. A confidant of...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 23, 2021
Will the machine stop?
If I mention E M Forster, what comes to your mind? A Room with a View, Howard’s End and A Passage to India? Lush Merchant Ivory films,...
Anthony Lipmann
Jun 17, 2021
Will G7 vaccine promises help Zambia?
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. With seagulls under instruction from...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 16, 2021
Muffle the lych bell!
So, my expectation that the LME Ring was doomed turns out – for the moment at any rate – to be wrong. After the sounding of the passing...
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