Gold’s two markets-in-one can anger and confuse
Given recent moves in the price of gold, it might be worth taking a leaf from behavioural economics and view the gold market as not one, but two.
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Australian coal industry costs of 2013 revealed
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Simandou railway shows how ‘politics can interfere with economics’ in Africa
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