Privileged Discussions
Privileged Discussions
Podcast Description
An entertaining podcast for everyone on International Trade & Business matters, analyzing the issues from alternative perspectives.Twitter: @JustinHaydenM ;Instagram: @PrivilegedDiscussions
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Focuses on diverse topics including trade policies, tariffs, historical economic theories, and tax avoidance with episodes analyzing President Trump's trade approaches alongside comparisons to historical mercantilism and its evolution in modern contexts.
An entertaining podcast for everyone, analyzing International Business & Global Trade / legal issues from alternative perspectives.
The show invites key eminent experts to discuss topical issues in plain English. Specialists will find the episodes informative as well.
Hosted by Justin Hayden Miller, a Global Trade lawyer (with 25 years’ experience) formerly at the Big 4 and now partner in one of Europe’s largest commercial law firms.
Publishing frequency: At least one episode should be published on or around the first Tuesday of each month.
Twitter: @JustinHaydenM
LinkedIn: Justin Hayden Miller
Email: [email protected]
Justin Hayden Miller (Global Trade lawyer) discusses steel – its history, its place in the 1929 Wall Street Crash, through to its future.
The episode is published to coincide with the NASCC: The Steel Conference event in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 2, 2025,
In particular, the episode addresses:
– The interwar period: between, WWI and WWII: the 1920s and the 1930s
– Jay-Z’s track $100 Bill, the lyrics of which concern the Roaring Twenties and the 1929 Wall Street Crash, with references to steel in the song.
– Comparisons between today’s economic events and those of the 1920s and 1930s
– The phrase: ”History don’t repeat itself, but it rhymes”, attributed to Mark Twain
– The importance of steel as a commodity. Steel commodity prices per ton and steel production in the1920s
– Reasons for the drop and crash in steel prices in 1929: buying “on the margin”
– Iconic buildings of the 1920s and 1930s using steel as architectural frames: the art deco New York Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building
– The importance of knowing as much about a product as possible, before advising on importation and Customs issues concerning it
– The sound of a train on steel tracks and similarities with movie Star Wars' sound effects
– Physical properties of steel
– The role of steel for any manned mission to Mars
– Steel used for spaceship components; Space X and Elon Musk’s Starship
– The composition of steel
– Stainless steel’s invention by Harry Brearley, and the story of stainless steel in Sheffield (”rustless steel”)
– Steel as a barometer of the world economy
– the current price of steel and oversupply
– US steel demand and tariffs
– European Union Steel Safeguard Measures: the EU Tariff Rate Quotes (TRQ) and Anti-Dumping tariffs
– An explanation of Absolute Quota Systems and Tariff Rate Quotes (TRQ), using analogies
– Trade Diversion and protective measures
– A comparison between the properties of steel and those of world and economic leaders
ARTISTIC REFERENCES:
$100 Bill (Song) Rap, Hip-Hop
Written by Jay-Z and Producer, Evan Mast.
Written for the 2013 film adaptation The Great Gatsby.
Recorded May 6, 2013.
Label: Interscope. Produced by E. Vax.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4XP935ZDMy36SyYGB8wadP
The Great Gasby (movie) 2013
Directed by Baz Luhrmann; Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan.
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: May 1, 2013 (New York City)
Star Wars (Movie) 1977
Written and Directed by George Lucas.
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fischer, Peter Cushing and Alex Guinness
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release Date: May 2, 1977
CONTACT DETAILS:
Twitter: @JustinHaydenM
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-hayden-miller-7b2a695/
Email: [email protected]
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