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.
In another reliably sensible column, Dean Baker asks Washington power brokers if they are willing to resign if they're $700 billion taxpayer-funded gamble fails to work.
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