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steel
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Fun Little Details Of The Gupta Metals Offerings
That Gupta was attempting to do a Mittal is obvious – plug together the scrag and dog ends…
A Terribly Stupid Claim About Green Steel And Recycling
Sure, we know how this works. Recycling is fashionable, it has become the solution to everything including inequality…
Steel Can’t Go Carbon Neutral By 2030
We’ve a pathway here for steel to go carbon neutral by 2030. A least, a claim that steel…
Getting China’s Steel Recycling Wrong – It’s About Rebuilding, Not Pollution
It’s sad to see people getting the basic economics wrong in a story. So it is with this…
The Real Loss To The US Economy From Trump’s Steel Tariffs
That tariffs on imported steel mean a loss to the American economy is obvious – by definition those…
Sanjeev Gupta’s US Metals Float Might Work – Might Not Too, To Be Honest
Sanjeev Gupta has been buying up marginal and distressed metals assets for some time now. It’s something of…
GM Suffers From Trump’s Tariffs – Big Surprise, Eh?
The standard economic claim is that tariffs upon trade are paid by the people inside the tariff barriers.…
Wilbur Ross Gets All Soviet Over US Steel Price Rises – Speculators, Not Tariffs, To Blame
Wilbur Ross has decided to go all Soviet over recent price rises in steel in the United States.…
Congratulations, The European Union Starts Making Us All Poorer On Friday
The European Union has decided that it would be a good idea to make all Europeans poorer starting…
As Krugman Says Trade Agreements Protect Us From Our Own Politicians, Not Foreigners
It’s not necessary to believe everything Paul Krugman says, it is appropriate to listen to him on the…