April 16, 2009

Is China Hoarding Copper?


Lots of speculation in the news about moves by the State Reserve Bureau in Beijing to buy huge amounts of primary metals, particularly copper but also aluminum and cobalt. Is China planning a copper standard to back the Yuan? Is Beijing stockpiling industrial resources while the global economy is down in order to be ready for the next boom cycle? Or is China really still chugging along at full speed (compared to sluggish Western economies) despite the impact of the Panic of '08?....

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