Re: [RC] Rare Earths --China's near monopoly

[David R. Block]

Title: "Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech

We have quite a bit, if the administration would let us mine them. But just like he wants to kill coal, it seems that the President is not interested in American Jobs (in spite of his frequent protests to the contrary). That's all for the consumption of the sheeple. That engineer whose wife sent his resume to Obama? Still unemployed. Don't tell me that the Golfer-in-Chief cannot find someone a job if he, you know, really tried... David "Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."—Neal Boortz   On 4/27/2012 12:10 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: This is why I discount most (not all) Chinese alarmism. The very anti-market thinking that lets them move quickly and strategically becomes their downfall. E Sent from my iPhone On Apr 26, 2012, at 21:47, bil...@aol.com wrote: The rare-earths story illustrates a larger point about China's development. Despite such well-laid plans, Beijing all too often underestimates market forces and the resistance it will face from local authorities and industries that do not share the central government's interests. For one, the market effect of capping rare-earths exports has been a precipitous rise of rare-earths prices on the world market -- exactly what Beijing intended. But higher prices since 2010 have allowed firms such as Australia's Lynas Corporation to begin developing -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org