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Freelance natural resources journalist. Commodities investing contributor @USNews. Bicycle mechanic.
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4 Best Copper ETFs in 2026

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By Matt Whittaker Verified, Brady Porche
| Money US News
Getty Images Growing infrastructure demand and tight supply make copper a strong long-term investment and good diversification tool. During the California gold rush of the mid-1800s, selling supplies and services to miners was a much more reliable way to gain wealth than striking it rich underground. The "picks-and-shovels" trade has become a Wall Street phrase for investing indirectly in a trend by gaining exposure to the underlying things necessary for that trend to happen.
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How the Sankin-kotai System Used Financial Ruin and Hostages to Control Japan’s Samurai

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By Matt Whittaker Verified
| The Collector Verified
Sankin-kotai, or “alternate attendance” in Japanese, sprang from a policy created by the Tokugawa Bakufu (military government) soon after the Tokugawa family consolidated their power in Japan after 1600. The Tokugawa family, led by the smart, tough, and politically canny Tokugawa Ieyasu, emerged as the victor of the brutal Warring States or Sengoku period. Since 1467, civil wars and social upheaval had raged throughout Imperial Japan as daimyos or nobles clashed.
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Why River Ironclads Were the Ultimate Secret Weapon of the Civil War

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By Matt Whittaker Verified
| The Collector Verified
Picture a slab-sliding ironclad rounding a bend on the Cumberland River in 1863. Firing on the move and belching black smoke, these nearly invulnerable vessels suddenly made any Confederate river defense vulnerable. While their ocean-going cousins captured national headlines, river ironclads were busy splitting the Confederacy in half. As a central part of Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan to control the Mississippi River, river ironclads were purposely built.
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