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“They’re paying into the program at a moment where baby boomers are retiring and collecting benefits — but with the next generation or two generations, there might be fewer of them to pay their benefits.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently announced that the government would create a strategic minerals reserve, not just for defense, but for national economic security — something the private sector can dip into.

The sport can pretend that every team has a chance, but plucky magic is no match for limitless resources.

“The babies’ breathing,” he writes, “was impetuous, nervous, uneven, but the mothers’ slow worldly sighs, forceful and vaguely wise, got to me, straight to the heart.”

There’s a 100-day maximum for that level of care, but you rarely get that long in practice because you need doctor approval.