Commodity Supercycles

Decade-long swings driven by underinvestment and demand shocks; the capital cycle in its purest form.

6 books · 4 people behind it

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  1. The PrizeDaniel Yergin, 1991
  2. Hot CommoditiesJim Rogers, 2004
  3. Capital ReturnsEdward Chancellor, 2015

The people behind it 4

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Investors 2

EC
Edward Chancellor1 book here
Jim Rogers1 book here

Journalists 2

DY
Daniel Yergin1 book here
EC
Edward Chancellor1 book here

Books 6

Daniel Yergin · 1991 · Oil as the template for how a commodity cycle and a geopolitics interact.
Jim Rogers · 2004 · The bull case written at the start of the last supercycle; read as a period document.
Edward Chancellor · 2015 · Why supply discipline, not demand forecasting, drives commodity returns.
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy · 2021 · The trading houses that sit between the cycles and profit from them.
Ed Conway · 2023 · The six materials the economy runs on and what limits their supply.
Dan Morgan · 1979 · The agricultural trading houses; the earlier version of the same business.