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The Market: Capitalism's Heart

At the Leadenhall Metal Exchange, no-one makes anything except money, and even that is not visible.

But the price of tin, steel and aluminium, decided by the metal middle-men at the Metal Exchange, affects even the price of the tins of food on our supermarket shelves. First transmitted in 1976.

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