, Columnist
If You Liked Palladium, You'll Love Lithium
Electric-car demand and tight supplies will drive prices higher.
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Lithium is increasingly hailed as a wonder metal. That alone may prompt commodity investors to run a mile. In the past decade alone, they have witnessed the rise and fall of rare earths and the short-lived nuclear-power renaissance that briefly made uranium an unlikely darling of the market.
They should cast their minds back a bit further, though, to the late 1990s and another metal: palladium.