Surprise, Surprise. Government Capital Stock Is Deteriorating

China-Linked Activist Network Preparing To Activate Against Carney's Rare-Earths Push Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper (emphasis our own), The Ring of Fire sits about 500 kilometers northeast of Thunder Bay in the muskeg of Ontario’s James Bay Lowlands, on Treaty 9 territory. Prospectors found it in 2007 and named it after a Johnny Cash song. Beneath the peat moss lies the Canadian Shield, deeply seamed with nickel and cobalt for batteries used in electric vehicles and smart phones, copper for the grids that power data centers, titanium, platinum and palladium for...

EPA Poised To Scrap Power Plant Carbon Standards By Robin Lawrence, of UtilityDive U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants today, according to multiple media reports. The repeal would complete the Trump administration’s elimination of climate policies enacted under the Obama and Biden administrations and could prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gases emissions from power plants, according to The New York Times. Climate Mayors and C40 Cities are among the municipal and environmental groups that have opposed the repeal, which...

Pennies Have Been Abandoned, Now What Will Be Done With Nickels? Authored by Adam Dick via RPI The United States government minted its final penny in November of 2025. This came after fiat money inflation succeeded in depriving pennies of nearly all their value. Pennies are still circulating, but it is increasingly common for stores to round cost totals to avoid giving pennies in change. Also, people seeing that the metal content of their pennies is worth more than the face value are deciding that it is better to store pennies in a jar...