Evening Sky 11-30-25

The American nickel has quietly become the most absurd symbol of Washington waste.

It now costs 13.78 cents to mint a coin worth five, a loss the government shrugs off while taxpayers eat the bill.

Thanks to the green-energy metals boom—driven by surging EV production—the nickel’s copper-and-nickel blend is worth more melted down than spent.

Yet the Mint keeps churning them out, burning $17.7 million last year alone.

Bound by the 1965 Coinage Act and blocked from modernizing, the government clings to a coin that costs nearly triple its value. It’s five cents on the face—and fiscal insanity underneath. [Roger Stone]

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