Category: Industry and Trade
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A Sheet Metal Guy Buys Into Deep-Sea Metals: My First Tiny Step Into Speculative Investing
Starting Small: A Tradesman Tries His Hand at Investing I bend metal for a living. My day job is duct fabrication—cutting, welding, shaping, and building things that move air. I’ve spent years worrying about sheet metal prices, shop efficiency, and whether my layout crew measured the transition right the first time. But as a small…
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Golden Shares and Cold Truths: What Nippon’s Takeover Means for American Steel
Despite saying all the right things in the media, Nippon Steel likely plans to shut down the older US Steel blast furnace plants—sooner than most in those communities would like. If this deal closes, which now seems inevitable, it’s only a matter of time before those outdated mills go offline. A lone worker watches as…