Glencore breaks from coal

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Via the AFR:

It says everything about the intellectual savvy and raw power of the global anti-coal lobby that it has corralled Ivan Glasenberg into a profound public concession on coal mining.

His ear-battered competitors say the softest thing about Glasenberg is the enamel of his teeth. Glencore’s chief executive and senior shareholder is hard. Well hard. But, after a three-year contest of the minds, he has buckled on coal under the weight of God, mammon and science.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.