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Flash talk | Industrial overcapacity and the logic of the 5-year LPR reduction

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Trivium co-founder Andrew Polk is taking a much needed break in the Appalachians, so in this week's Flash Talk head of China Markets Research, Dinny McMahon, gets together with Cory Combs, associate director for energy and industry research, to talk overcapacity.
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