Metal of the Past, Metal of the Future
Copper, the first metal worked by humans, will be crucial to decarbonization, and could be the path to a Chinese Century.
If California were a country, it's GDP would place it among the 10 largest nation's in the world. So it's a big deal when the state's official unemployment rate hits 9.3 percent, as it did in December. This is up from 8.4 percent in November, and 5.9 percent in December 2007.
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