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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...
Martin Hayes
Apr 1, 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...
Anthony Lipmann
Mar 25, 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...
Trevor Tarring
Mar 18, 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 11, 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...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 4, 2020
Carbon and Hypocrisy
Something has been bothering me for a while. Of course, I’m no climate scientist, so I have to accept that, if I were, the answer to my...
geoffreysambrook
Feb 26, 2020
Time Pieces
(Apologies to Eric Clapton: I couldn’t resist borrowing the title….) Time may be a great healer, but it’s also the dimension that gives...
geoffreysambrook
Feb 19, 2020
Grandstanding and Hostages to Fortune
Government grandstanding on issues it believes will curry favour is hardly new, and I fear that the climate change/renewable energy/end...
geoffreysambrook
Feb 7, 2020
Japan, China and the EU
In 1970, an analyst with Rand Corporation predicted that Japan would overtake the US to become the world’s largest economy in around the...
geoffreysambrook
Jan 28, 2020
Look Back – but not (necessarily) in Anger
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Generally, as time passes, decades do...
Martin Hayes
Jan 22, 2020
Cowboys and Indiums
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Minor metals, such as indium, rarely...
Anthony Lipmann
Jan 15, 2020
Reflections on Regulation
This article was written by Clem Danin. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Let us go back again to the new LME...
Clem Danin
Jan 8, 2020
No New Beginning for Zambia
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. Al views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Across the street from where I live in...
Anthony Lipmann
Dec 18, 2019
The Tin Agreement Collapse
This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. 2020 will see the thirty-fifth...
Trevor Tarring
Dec 11, 2019
This time, be very, very careful….
What fun! We’re all off to the polling station again in a week or so’s time for this year’s election. I suppose the thinking could be to...
geoffreysambrook
Dec 4, 2019
Of Partners, Champagne and Corkscrews – Part Two
This article was written by John Wolff. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The first part was published last week,...
John Wolff
Nov 27, 2019
Of Partners, Champagne and Corkscrews
This article was written by John Wolff. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Recent articles by Anthony Lipmann on the Lehmann...
John Wolff
Nov 20, 2019
Tremor in Chile
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. How quickly the world changes. I was...
Anthony Lipmann
Nov 13, 2019
The way we were…….
This article was written by Clem Danin. All views and opinions are strictly his own. As we approach the 2020s let us go back six decades...
Clem Danin
Nov 6, 2019
Valhalla: Chapter Five
As the argument continued round and round, another figure joined the group. “Jason Serck!” exclaimed McKee. “Come and join the party....
geoffreysambrook
Nov 1, 2019
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