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Bags of rocks at the LME warehouses - 2023 March 18
The London Metals Exchange has had a number of issues with the Nickle market over the last few years, the most recent scandal however might be more amusing than all the others.
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How cheaper computational power has changed banking - 2023 March 14
The decrease in the cost of computational power has completely changed the modern world one industry at a time. Banking is no exception. To understand the current banking crisis understanding some of the forces that led us to here will help.
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2023 Avalon Airshow - 2023 March 12
Last weekend I went to the 2023 Avalon Airshow.
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The markets for metals - 2023 March 04
For any market there must be a way in which buyers are matched up with sellers, this article talks about how this happens with metals.
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A useful postgres explain tool - 2023 March 03
A useful tool for formatting the output of Postgres explain tool.
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What is a commodity - 2023 March 03
What is it that makes a commodity a commodity?
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EBDITA and accounting games - 2023 February 18
Accounting games seem to have become more common in the markets lately. People far wiser than me have been commenting on this from some time now, I was reminded of this when I came across a video from a Berkshire Hathaway public meeting that was filmed in 2003 that was talking about the impact of EBDITA on company reports.
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Mindat.org is amazing! - 2023 February 18
While researching for the series of posts about metals I found mindat.org which is an amazing open database of information about minerals and rocks along with information about where they are mined.
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Central bank interventions and price discovery - 2023 February 18
Do we really have free markets if there's ongoing large interventions being made into those markets even if it's under the guise of monetary policy?
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I'll be talking about failure demand tonight - 2023 February 16
I'll be talking about the concept of "failure demand" at the peer-to-peer learning meetup event tonight.
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