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According to a study published in March, Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs may create 33,400 additional jobs in the metals sector, but will destroy 180,000 jobs across the rest of the economy.
As they adjust to lower prices for oil, metals, and grain – and the eventual upturn in global interest rates – they will have to pursue productivity-enhancing reforms.
From messenger RNA therapeutics to the mining of metals from desalination brine, new research and development promises new opportunities for progress.
Even so, one-fifth of Russia’s exports comprise metals and chemicals that are sensitive to anti-dumping measures.
While prices of oil, metals, and food rose very significantly after 2003, reaching historic highs sometime between 2008 and 2011, nobody expects similar price increases in the future.
The debate is whether prices will remain more or less where they are or decline, as food, metals, and coal prices have already done.
Moreover, because many renewable energy technologies are built with mined metals and minerals, the global mining industry will play a key role in the transition to a low-carbon future.
That is what the extraordinary run-up in prices for oil, metals, and food is screaming at us.
Growing demand for energy, metals, and minerals – particularly in China – has driven unprecedented levels of foreign investment.
During Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward, scrap metals were melted to meet wildly optimistic steel-production targets and thus to propel rapid industrial development.
This has tended to increase metals prices, fueling Australia’s large export surplus in metals.
Call this the fifth anomaly – the result of China’s slowdown, the surge in supplies of energy and industrial metals (following successful exploration and overinvestment in new capacity), and the strong dollar, which weakens commodity prices.
Beyond water, Tibet is the world’s top lithium producer; home to China’s largest reserves of several metals, including copper and chromite (used in steel production); and an important source of diamonds, gold, and uranium.
Combine this with China’s bullying of Japan, by blocking the export of rare-earth metals vital for Japanese industry, over a few uninhabited islands between Taiwan and Okinawa, and its refusal to let the renminbi appreciate, and one must wonder why China is being so heavy-handed in its foreign relations.
North America’s shale-energy revolution has weakened oil and gas prices, while China’s slowdown has undermined demand for a broad range of commodities, including iron ore, copper, and other industrial metals, all of which are in greater supply after years of high prices stimulated investments in new capacity.
That trade imbalance implied a continuous drain on gold and silver coin, causing shortages of these metals in Rome.
First, a global monetary system based on precious metals does not resolve the fundamental imbalances of a global economic system.
Second, precious metals do not resolve the problem of inflation.
Before the invention of coins, commerce depended on precious metals.
Another difficulty with using undifferentiated precious metals for exchange was that some trust or expertise was required to assure people that the metal was pure.
But high prices are also encouraging many more people to extract precious metals from existing products – at great danger to themselves and others.
Other precious metals that are teased from the Earth, including indium, gallium, palladium, and ruthenium, are being discarded in much the same way as other electronic waste (e-waste).
It can be argued that disposing of high-tech e-waste in landfills is just another way of returning these precious metals to the earth, where, millennia from now, it will have merged with the substrata, becoming just like any other ore.
But, along with the precious metals, e-waste also contains potent toxic chemicals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants.
Some would manage e-waste at one of the handful of sophisticated smelters that can recover precious metals from discarded electronic devices.
Most surprisingly, Zimbabwe’s exports were not restricted to minerals and metals, as one might assume, but also included tobacco and cotton, products that are relatively more labor-intensive, meaning more job creation at home.
The expectation of a surge in infrastructure spending in the US under Trump has caused a number of commodity prices to soar (overall uncertainty has also sent investors packing into metals such as gold and copper, which function as safe-haven assets).
Such effects could be reinforced by the addition of metals to the oil in order to confuse bombs' guidance systems.
Indeed, with sky-high prices of crude oil and base metals like copper, aluminum, and zinc, the rising euro has become a shield for Europe’s ongoing economic recovery.
Because the euro has appreciated against the dollar, the euro price of crude oil and base metals has increased at a slower pace than their corresponding dollar prices.
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