Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 3 | Jeff Currie on New Technologies and Finding a Price for Carbon

Goldman Sachs commodities chief Jeff Currie weighs in on the next commodity cycle, the return of inflation, and why it’s essential for the marketplace to figure out how to put a price on carbon in order to enable the realization of ESG objectives. Jeff goes on to describe tokenization of commodity futures warehouse receipts as the best use case he’s heard for distributed ledger (aka “Blockchain Technology”).

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