Weekend Reads: Fractured trade, resurrected mines and betting on everything
By Anna Szymanski
Oct 23 (Reuters) - Looking for inspiration? Every Friday, Weekend Reads rounds up what the Reuters Open Interest team has been reading, watching and listening to.
This week's picks explore the hidden costs of globalisation, resurrected copper mines, the economics of child custody, and more.
This weekend, we're reading...
RON BOUSSO, ROI Energy Columnist: Ed Conway's new book Trade World is a fascinating story of the ways trade has formed and connected civilisations throughout the centuries. The goods we buy from around the world today have made us richer and more productive, but they have also created big and increasingly dangerous dependencies, Conway argues.
GAVIN MAGUIRE, ROI Global Energy Transition Columnist: This analysis by management consultancy Bain & Co argues that the chemicals sector is undergoing a major global structural reset. Chemicals production assets were once the backbone of every major industrial hub, but massive overcapacity alongside aggressive output growth in China has permanently altered the economics of certain categories. Bain considers how producers in the Americas, Middle East, India and elsewhere can adapt.
CLYDE RUSSELL, ROI Asia Commodities and Energy Columnist: This piece by respected oil analyst Vandana Hari argues that the 700,000 barrel-per-day Dangote refinery in Nigeria offers a model for making crude refining more geographically diverse in the wake of the Iran conflict.
ANDY HOME, ROI Metals Columnist: This piece from my Reuters colleague Solomon Cefai examines how high copper prices are leading to the reactivation of old mines such as Mount Lyell in Australia, which first opened in 1899 and has been dormant for 12 years.
We're listening to...
MIKE DOLAN, ROI Finance & Markets Columnist: Venturing beyond ROI's newsfile and columns, a podcast from the Centre for Economic Policy Research explores the economic impact of child-custody decisions after divorce.
And we're watching...
ANNA SZYMANSKI, ROI Editor-in-Charge: In the latest episode of Reuters Econ World, Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour joins host Carmel Crimmins to explore whether prediction markets can really help us understand the future, and what happens when an increasing number of aspects of life become tradable.
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