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Video | Energy & Natural Resources

Dead Wrong: Are Rare Earth Minerals Rare?

You can’t have free markets in strategic resources. As Paul Krugman warned us free trade made us dependent on China for rare earth minerals, necessary in almost all high-tech gizmos, so it was a disaster when China restricted exports in 2010. Dead wrong.

Johan Norberg — Mar 22, 2017

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    Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the author of, "Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future."

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