Ten Minutes With Tate The Next Commodities Supercycle

Is a new commodities supercycle emerging? This video offers a macro-level analysis of the long-term structural forces shaping commodity markets, providing critical insights for portfolio managers, allocators, and institutional investors seeking inflation protection and uncorrelated returns. We examine the evolving dynamics behind supply constraints, policy shifts, and multi-decade investment cycles impacting energy, metals, and agriculture. ? What…

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Why We Have Rules

In the popular imagination, traders are often portrayed as instinct-driven mavericks, reading flickering charts with a gut feel honed through adrenaline and caffeine. Movies and media amplify this mythology—traders shouting into phones, making deals on impulse, riding the chaos of the market. But the reality—at least for those who survive and thrive in the markets—is…

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The Space Between Things

In Japanese aesthetics and philosophy, the concept of “Ma” (間) refers to the space between things, not just a physical gap, but a meaningful pause, a moment of stillness that gives shape and rhythm to everything around it. In music, it’s the silence that gives notes their contour. In architecture, it’s the emptiness that defines…

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Did You Even Look?

I am planning to create a video on commodities at some stage, but statements like the one below, made in the AFR, do make me question whether journalists ever take the time to examine a chart. Prices of soybeans and corn, which are both used to produce biofuels, have risen in tandem with diesel and…

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