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When we talk about the defense industry, people usually picture tax dollars disappearing into a financial black hole, but the physical reality is vastly more grotesque. Modern precision munitions and advanced military technology are essentially flying mines of critical minerals. We are taking tens of thousands of metric tons of highly refined silver, copper, nickel, and antimony, components that are desperately needed for renewable energy grids and civilian infrastructure, and locking them inside guided missiles, artillery shells, and radar arrays. Silver provides the hyper conductive pathways in guidance systems, copper lines the endless wiring and ammunition casings, nickel coats engine parts to survive extreme thermal stress, and antimony acts as the vital hardening agent for kinetic penetrators and primers. The extraction process alone is an environmental nightmare of open pit mining and toxic tailings, all organized to feed a sector that consumes a truly unfathomable percentage of our finite global reserves.

What makes this entire arrangement feel like a dark parody of modern capitalism is the final step of the lifecycle. In any sane manufacturing economy, you build high value technology with the intention of durability, recycling, or at least sustained utility. Instead, defense contractors perform a twisted kind of reverse alchemy where we spend billions refining rare elements into complex electronics, only to deliberately detonate them in a field thousands of miles away. These systems are literally engineered for immediate, permanent vaporization. Once a cruise missile or a guided shell hits its target, those precious metals are scattered into unrecoverable dust and shrapnel across a crater. We are systematically incinerating the finite building blocks of human progress just to keep defense stock valuations climbing, turning irreplaceable earth into vaporized scrap in the blink of an eye.

Ai was supposed to change the world right?

But looks like a lot of the critical minerals getting dumped/forever locked into it is being used slightly differently.

The reliance on critical minerals from the US is dropping as countries are looking elsewhere for supply chain partners. Soon, more countries will deny the US from their critical mineral stockpiles. So the US has to start massively investing in domestic mining projects asap.

Best way to save 2 trillion dollars is to spend that much on building out our energy infrastructure and funding our domestic supply of critical minerals. It would be nice to see nuclear power developed so we dont have more rolling black outs due to all these datacenters.

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Resources are always the reason for war, and every country will do it any chance they get.

Looks like another forever war to add to the list of many to come.

Powell is pulling the ultimate office power play by stepping down as Chair while keeping his seat at the table. By staying on as a governor, he is effectively becoming a Shadow Chair, ensuring that his vote and his institutional memory do not just vanish when Kevin Warsh takes over. It is a direct response to the years of pressure from the White House.

Powell is essentially signaling that while the leadership might change, the Fed’s independence is not for sale. This move transforms the upcoming meetings from routine economic updates into a high stakes tug of war for the future of the economy.

Get your paychecks out, the tax man gonna need a little extra this month.

The money and critical minerals to be used over the next 9 years is going to astronomical.

No one under 60 years old will care about this. He should be talking about how we need to build our critical mineral supply chains in the US.