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To: kidl who wrote (7496)	4/8/2021 7:18:06 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13784

who controls what is anyone's guess Indeed but it is all about cutting the costs (Europeans and Chinese) Accessing Siberian oil&gas (Russia) The Ever Given (the ship that blocked the Suez Canal) at 400m is the longest a Container Ship can go. Docking limitation.´ There is a limit to piling containers higher as the ship's hull will buckle. There's room to go wider than the 70m of the Ever Given (the Ever Given already does not fit in the Panama Canal) Container ships can be wider using the NSR

To: kidl who wrote (7496)	4/24/2021 1:49:58 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13784

Hi Kidl ! I was looking who would buy Vale's coal operations in Moatize, Mozambique. In January 2021, Vale hired Barclays and Standard Chartered as consultants to sell its interests in the Moatize region Now I have an idea whom. Just how dependent is Bitcoin on Xinjiang? When a single coal mine in Xinjiang flooded last weekend, that halted more than THIRTY PERCENT of Bitcoin's global computing power. How much Bitcoin comes from dirty coal? A flooded mine in China just spotlighted the issue BY SHAWN TULLY April 20, 2021 5:47 PM GMT+1 https://fortune.com/2021/04/20/bitcoin-mining-coal-china-environment-pollution/

To: kidl who wrote (7496)	5/11/2021 12:07:25 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13784

When you put a big visible hand in the economy, things move in unexpected directions. Governments' knee jerk reactions trying fight Covid, artificially changed the markets' dynamics. Now everyone wants the market to operate as if those clumsy Covid measures did not exist. Everybody was accepting the Covid tale. You did not hear many say saying late 2020: "This is going to have adverse reactions." The Law of the Unintended Consequences is going to hit us What we heard late last year was Dr. Fauci's advices and the WHO recommendations.

To: kidl who wrote (7496)	5/18/2021 1:22:35 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13784

Copper will suffer ! Chile votes for radicals and independents to write new constitution Traditional parties from left and right largely shunned in election for constitutional body Benedict Mander in Buenos Aires and Michael Stott in London YESTERDAY Chile’s stock market dived after voters backed hard-left, radical and independent candidates to write the country’s new constitution, in a poll that largely shunned traditional parties of the left and right. Investors were particularly alarmed by the poor performance of President Sebastián Piñera’s ruling centre-right coalition, Chile Vamos. It won only 37 of the 155 seats in the constitutional assembly, far short of the one-third required to block major changes. Chile suffered weeks of sometimes violent social protests in 2019, which were calmed by a decision in a referendum to draw up a new constitution to address longstanding grievances over inequality and inadequate pensions and public services. However, the results of the weekend constituent assembly election defied forecasts of a moderate body. The traditional centre-left managed only 25 seats, official results showed, meaning that the left and right blocs, which have dominated Chilean politics since the Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1990, managed only 62 seats between them, just over a third of the assembly. Instead, the results suggested that two radical blocs — one hard left including the communists, and the other of independent leftists — appeared to have secured between them 52 seats in the new chamber, allowing them to block any changes they dislike. Another 30 seats went to indigenous representatives and regionalist groupings. Interpretation of the results was made harder by the plethora of independents elected, many of them little-known. Gabriel Boric, of the far-left Broad Front, predicted that the election would mean major changes in Chile, the world’s largest copper producer. “We are looking for a new treaty for our indigenous populations, to recover our natural resources, build a state that guarantees universal social rights,” he said, according to Reuters. “We’re going to start from scratch and build a new Chile”. Piñera, meanwhile, said that “citizens have sent a loud, clear message to traditional political forces”. Turnout in the complex election, which also included gubernatorial, mayoral and municipal polls that were postponed because of the pandemic, was just 43 per cent for the members of the constitutional assembly, compared with 51 per cent who voted in the referendum last year, four-fifths of whom opted for a new charter. “People with vague convictions didn’t go to the polls, while people with intense convictions did go,” said Andrés Velasco, a former Chilean finance minister who is dean of public policy at the London School of Economics. Chile has not been spared the coronavirus second wave that has hit Latin America despite it having the highest vaccination rates in the region. Confirmed infections reached their highest-ever level last month, although numbers have since declined. The country has in recent decades become one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations, but remains an unequal society. The 2019 protests were triggered by a fare rise on the Santiago metro but quickly snowballed into weeks of riots which presented a major challenge to Piñera’s government. Piñera, a billionaire former businessman, has repeatedly been accused of being out of touch, and the government has suffered repeated defeats in Congress, notably over pensions reform. Chile will elect a new president in November. This story has been amended to clarify the number of assembly members who voted for a new charter in the referendum.