Jun 26, 20124 min readRhenium – “One Metal, Two Guvnors”The stage show making all the headlines on both sides of the Atlantic is the Goldoni revival and re-write ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ in which...
Feb 24, 20122 min readConflicts of InterestIt is a measure, if any were needed, of how far the London Metal Exchange has departed from its purpose of running a free market, that in...
Feb 3, 20122 min readLest We Forget…In your leader, ‘Lest we Forget’, January 20, 2012, you commemorate the deaths of 204 miners who died at the Hester iron-ore mine, New...
Oct 5, 20111 min readReferee is up for sale at the very time independent judgment is most needed…Sir, Perhaps lost in the dazzling excitement of the potential sale of the London Metal Exchange (“Goldman Sachs to become biggest winner...
Oct 3, 20113 min readKeep a historical perspective on Rhenium – and be careful not to look at the economy…In 1991, when the Soviet Union broke up, Kazakhstan had an old stockpile of Rhenium thought to be 15 mt. This was sold to the West and...
May 15, 20115 min readSeparating Facts and Fiction in the Rhenium MarketPresident Kennedy said: The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth...
