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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

America, the Oblivious

European resource imperialism dominated world politics from the close of the Napoleonic Wars to the end of the…

Jack Lifton

April 21, 2026
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

Critical Minerals and Deficit Financing (aka, subsidies)

Access to natural resources and the capability and capacity to process them to produce energy and to fabricate…

Jack Lifton

September 6, 2024
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

The Central Processing of Critical Metals, an Idea Whose Time Has Come

If individual nations and politically aligned regions are to achieve self-sufficiency and security of supply, as soon as…

Jack Lifton

April 1, 2022
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

China is winning the war for the future.

The perennial key geopolitical and geoeconomics issues of the conflict among nation-states over the allocation of scarce critical…

Jack Lifton

September 8, 2021
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Defense Metals’ Mark Tory on Why the Rare Earths Grade and Processing Technology Matters

April 22, 2026

Mark Wall on American Rare Earths Advancing Halleck Creek as the U.S. Pushes for Domestic Supply Chain Control

April 17, 2026

AscentX Medical’s Larry Braga on a Minimally Invasive Solution for GERD

April 16, 2026

AscentX Medical’s Dr. Sandhu on a New Approach to Treating GERD

April 16, 2026