There was more art than science in Joe Lowry’s approach to setting commodity prices when he was selling lithium on behalf of a big Chinese producer a decade ago.“I picked a price out of thin air,” he told the Money of Mine podcast in a 2023 retrospective … I said the price for this stuff is $28,625 bucks. No logic, no nothing, and everybody paid for it.”Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles