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And as many homeowners have found to their chagrin, plumbing works silently in the background—until it doesn’t, with messy and even catastrophic aftereffects.

It is willing to handle the messy middle of the rare earth element supply chain.

In a messy year for energy stocks, refiners have been stars.

And that means that what comes next could prove to be as messy as what we have now.

“This is going to end in a messy breakup,” I wrote in my notebook, predicting the demise of their relationship.