No Matter What, China’s “Rare Earths” Will Flow to the United States

Rubber was oil before oil. As Edmund Morris wrote in his biography of Thomas Edison, in the early parts of the 20th century rubber was arguably the most coveted industrial input in the world. In Morris’s words, “What petroleum would one day be to developed nations, rubber presently was: a raw material essential enough to […]

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