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copper

The trouble with copper tariffs

July 14, 2025July 13, 2025 by Kurt Cobb

Tariffs on copper imported into the United States will not result in self-sufficiency for the country anytime soon, if ever.

Categories Economy, Economy featured Tags copper 1 Comment

On the emerging copper shortfall, mainstream media notices

June 12, 2023June 4, 2023 by Kurt Cobb

Denying there are limits to resources doesn’t negate this fact. It only makes it harder when limits appear because we are unprepared.

Categories Energy, Energy featured Tags copper, finite resources 4 Comments

Scavenger or thief: The line will continue to blur

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 by Kurt Cobb

The role of scavenger in nature is to find that which others have discarded or which no longer has life. In the human world, the more desperate the times, the more scavenging people are likely to do and the less stuff there will be to go around. That’s when scavenging may cross the line into theft.

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