{"id":209745,"date":"2026-02-08T21:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209745"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:23:21","slug":"unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209745","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking Copper\u2019s Phantom Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headlines from the London Metal Exchange tell a story of a world on the brink of a copper famine.\u00a0 2025 is closing out with prices up nearly 40%&#8230;the most violent annual move since the post-crisis bounce of 2009.\u00a0 We\u2019ve watched prices breach $12,000 a tonne&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Metals\/Commodities\/The-Economically-Trapped-Tonne-Unpacking-Coppers-Phantom-Deficit.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headlines from the London Metal Exchange tell a story of a world on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit.jpg",718,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit.jpg",640,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit.jpg",640,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit.jpg",718,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209745-unpacking-coppers-phantom-deficit-590x300.jpg",590,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}