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To: Thomas M. who wrote (793398)	10/21/2025 3:58:08 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 794157

MP has since (thanks to Trump) received substantial investment making the US government a large shareholder, and because of tariffs has ceased business with Shenghe as of this year. MP is building out its own rare earth magnet plants now in Texas. The DoD basically sets the price floor for MP. It is subsidizing MP to preserve and expand US rare earth supply, processing, and magnet production.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (793398)	11/15/2025 12:26:00 PM
From: Thomas M.	3 Recommendations Recommended By goldworldnet John Hayman Tom Clarke Respond to of 794157

Fed Study Vindicates Trump Trade Policy: 150 Years of Evidence Shows Tariffs Lower Inflation A sweeping new analysis of tariff policy spanning 150 years suggests that the economic establishment may have fundamentally misunderstood how tariffs affect prices and employment, a finding with profound implications for understanding President Donald Trump’s trade policy and the proper response by the Federal Reserve. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examined major tariff changes from 1870 through 2020 across the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Their conclusion challenges the conventional wisdom that dominated economic policy debates in recent years: when countries raise tariffs, prices actually fall, not rise. “We find that a tariff hike raises unemployment and lowers inflation,” the authors, Régis Barnichon and Aayush Singh, write in their working paper released this month.”This goes against the predictions of standard models, whereby CPI inflation should go up in response to higher tariffs.” [continued ...] breitbart.com Tom