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Paradise and Tax
Dear Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell, (Or should I call you Jez and John?) Frankly, I don’t agree with the vast majority of your policies, but...
geoffreysambrook
Nov 15, 2017
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Returning Optimism – LME Dinner 2017
Another LME dinner goes by. If not showing the level of irrational (with hindsight) exuberance of the 2005-07 period, when the press even...
geoffreysambrook
Nov 8, 2017
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To Kill a President?
Since 1776, when the newly-minted United States of America decided to abandon the comfort blanket of the British Empire, four of its...
geoffreysambrook
Nov 1, 2017
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A Neophyte's LME Dinner
This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The LME Dinner week is fast approaching and as I...
David Gaddes
Oct 25, 2017
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Court of Appeal Judgement Will Make Miners Listen
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. It may not have registered with the...
Anthony Lipmann
Oct 18, 2017
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Letter from Hong Kong
Letter from Hong Kong I’ve been in Hong Kong for the last week or so, for the first time in a few years. Talking to people here, changes...
geoffreysambrook
Oct 10, 2017
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The Capital of Metal
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. To mention in polite society that...
Anthony Lipmann
Oct 4, 2017
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The LME Welcomes I/Bs
Years ago, when the horse and cart was the principal means of land transport and shipping metal concentrate from halfway around the world...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 27, 2017
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Ozymandias and Dzerzhinsky
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… near them, on the sand, Half...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 20, 2017
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We've Been Here Before
This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Anthony Lipmann’s piece on the Trump Metals Act...
Trevor Tarring
Sep 13, 2017
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Lady Luck
Luck and Battles For a long time, I held the view that luck is an under-valued element in considering success in financial markets. It’s...
geoffreysambrook
Sep 6, 2017
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Why Do They Always Sell Options?
Why do they always sell options? Over the years, I’ve come across too many LME users who alight – often believing themselves to be...
geoffreysambrook
Aug 30, 2017
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The Trump Metals Act
Yogi (It looks like its déjà vu all over again) Berra would have been proud. It seems like the revs with which metal history repeats...
Anthony Lipmann
Aug 24, 2017
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AK-47s and Salvador Dali
Setting LME customer margin levels and collecting the cash these days is a pretty routine activity. Put the numbers into the parameters...
geoffreysambrook
Aug 16, 2017
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A Fanfare of Strumpets
This article was written by John Wolff. All views and opinions are strictly his own. I was glancing through a list of the fifty most...
John Wolff
Aug 9, 2017
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Arsenic and Old Wallpaper
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. If you happen to like your popular science with...
Anthony Lipmann
Aug 2, 2017
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Tungsten and the Spooks
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Talking to old metal boys about deals of the...
Anthony Lipmann
Jul 26, 2017
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The Power of Trust
This article was written By David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. During the early 1980s I was employed by an...
David Gaddes
Jul 18, 2017
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EVs and the Festival of Speed
Ten days or so ago, I went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. I go there each year, but this time you could be excused for thinking that...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 12, 2017
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Fish or Meat?
The first time I went Siberia was just a few years after the implosion of the Soviet system and a couple of years into the presidency of...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 5, 2017
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