NYC Tossed Out Roughly 46,000 NYPD Civil Summonses Last Year Due To Errors

5 Challenges Facing South America's Copper Boom Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Escondida supervisors, about 1,020 workers at the world’s largest copper mine, said they would strike at 8 a.m. local time Wednesday, a week after workers walked out at Centinela. Chile’s August copper output fell 12.8% to 369,500 tons, the lowest monthly total since February 2011, and a fatal landslide hit Codelco’s El Teniente on Sunday. The IEA still sees primary copper supply about 25% short of requirements by 2035, while Peru targets $33 billion in mining investment and Argentina’s Vicuña...

China's "Quasi-Monopolistic" Grip On Critical Materials Ignites Western Supply Race: First To Deliver Wins Big The global push toward electrification carries several risks, including replacing dependence on foreign oil and natural gas with reliance on Chinese technology and critical materials, as access to cheap electricity dictates investment flows and where AI and industrial bases thrive. Christian Keller, Barclays' global head of economics research, co-authored a note Tuesday on how rapidly accelerating geopolitical fragmentation and surging power demand are rewiring the global economy. He argued that countries must secure traditional fuel supplies...

Doug Casey On The End Of Honest Markets Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: Markets are supposed to reflect economic reality. But when central banks suppress interest rates, governments debase currencies, and major powers manipulate oil prices for political purposes, can any market still be considered honest? Doug Casey: Almost all markets are distorted in some way by government intervention. Interest rates are the price of money itself. They’re the blood of an economy; when they’re manipulated, it amounts to blood poisoning. Currencies have become nothing more than floating abstractions. They move up and down by government fiat. The...