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It is more of an industrial metal that responds to the industrial cycle, particularly vehicle demand.
FORBES: Gold Prices Poke Above Platinum On Global Macroeconomic Concerns
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But in the longer term, whenever the industrial cycle picks up again, platinum should regain the upper hand against gold, Bhar said.
FORBES: Gold Prices Poke Above Platinum On Global Macroeconomic Concerns
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And arguably, those are going to be out of favor, or the industrial cycle is going to be weaker for the foreseeable future.
FORBES: Gold Prices Poke Above Platinum On Global Macroeconomic Concerns
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The fact that people have used industrial chemistry to short-circuit the nitrogen cycle, by making fertilisers out of nitrogen in the air at a rate which greatly exceeds what natural systems can manage, has real environmental effects.
ECONOMIST: The global environment
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Not even oil, the archetypal industrial commodity, quite conforms to the super-cycle theory.
ECONOMIST: Commodities
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It was sheer good fortune, he always thought, that brought both Mr Rock and Mr Perkins into his life, and the luck of the business cycle that put him in the thick of the wildest industrial growth in modern American history.
ECONOMIST: Eugene Kleiner
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Signor has been active in Texas real estate and energy businesses (depending on the cycle) since the early 1990s, and was working on an industrial park in South Texas when he saw the spartan state of temporary housing that was springing up to house drilling workers in the fast-developing oilfields there.
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