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New era of 'aggressive economic nationalism'

Overheard at a City bistro: an executive yearning for the good old days, when mining in remote places could be secured by wining and dining the right people in the right places, albeit not all of them the sort of individuals you’d take home to meet mother!

New era of 'aggressive economic nationalism' New era of 'aggressive economic nationalism' New era of 'aggressive economic nationalism' New era of 'aggressive economic nationalism' New era of 'aggressive economic nationalism'

To be sure, resource nationalism has been around a long time and miners have always had to risk being stuck with higher taxes and royalties than originally agreed with national governments.