The Japan Times
AsiaPac · 1 hrs ago
✦ 75◉ Centre
A warning to critical minerals buyers: avoid butter mountains, aluminium floods
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The article uses historical examples of market overproduction caused by subsidies and price guarantees (such as the EU's dairy surplus and aluminium gluts) as a cautionary tale for current critical minerals markets, warning that similar policy-driven overproduction could destabilise prices and create global economic disruption.
A warning to critical minerals buyers: avoid butter mountains, aluminium floods
In the 1980s and 1990s, subsidies, cheap energy and price guarantees fueled overproduction of various products which flooded markets, tanked prices and spread pain globally.
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