Weekly Reading: Some interesting stuff

The situation of Graphite producers in China

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-steel-graphiteelectrode/the-graphite-fix-inside-chinas-newest-commodity-addiction-idUSKCN1BW0S2

Cities are wooing Amazon for their 2nd HQ

http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/nothing-is-too-strange-for-cities-wooing-amazon-s-second-headquarters-117092600054_1.html

China is looking to upset the current petrodollar system by introducing a gold-backed “petroyuan” oil futures contract. And since China is the largest importer of oil globally, this shift away from the petrodollar could be bad news for the US but it could be great news for gold owners

http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/china-to-bring-back-gold-in-international-settlement-with-new-oil-futures-117092500288_1.html

To listen and understand; to question and disagree; to treat no proposition as sacred and no objection as impious; to be willing to entertain unpopular ideas and cultivate the habits of an open mind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/opinion/dying-art-of-disagreement.html

Is this the beginning of the end for booze companies?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/julesschroeder/2017/09/26/generation-sober-10-reasons-why-millennials-are-opting-out-of-booze-to-socialize/#21dc71bb6cf1