Profiles

While most Americans will never see the money the government takes they will have to bear the cost of the higher metal prices that result.

Mongolians would be better off building on the new wealth created by a potential copper mine, rather than discouraging risk-takers from finding and developing new mines.

Legislating sustainability, writes Morgan J. Poliquin, is another attempt to replace the collective decisions of many in the market place with the coercive will of the few.