Dear Reader,
I read an article today. It made my blood boil.
It’s about a hole in the ground. In the Mojave Desert. A mine called Mountain Pass.
This mine used to be the king. It supplied the world with something called rare earth elements.
While our leaders chased feel-good green fantasies and tied our own hands with regulations, China cornered the market on the most important materials on earth
China now controls over 90% of the refining for these critical metals. They won because our government made it impossible to mine and refine in America
The government is trying to fix its own mess by throwing your tax dollars at the problem, copying China’s failed playbook of central planning
For decades, one type of investment was reserved for the ultra-wealthy. Then Trump signed Executive Order 14330 - and opened it to everyone. Now you can get into this boom for less than $20.
You’ve probably never heard of them. But you’re using them right now. They are on your phone.
Your computer. Your car. They are the magic dust of the 21st century.
A single F-35 fighter jet needs almost a thousand pounds of them. A Navy destroyer needs six thousand pounds.
And we gave it all away.
My poor dad, the academic, would have trusted the government. He would have believed the story that we were “protecting the environment” by shutting down our mines.
He was a good man, but he was financially naive. He didn’t understand the game.
My rich dad taught me to look at what people do, not what they say. He taught me that the most valuable assets are real things.
Things you can pull out of the ground. And he taught me that governments are terrible at business.
How to Lose a Monopoly
America had a monopoly on rare earths.
We were the Saudi Arabia of the minerals that make technology work. And we just handed it over to our biggest competitor.
Why? Because of stupid rules. Green tape.
Politicians and bureaucrats who think wealth comes from a printing press, not from a mine.
They made it so expensive and so difficult to dig in America that we just stopped.
We outsourced our pollution, and with it, we outsourced our power.
China saw their chance. They’re not stupid. While we were busy feeling good about ourselves, they were busy eating our lunch.
Their leader, Deng Xiaoping, said it perfectly back in 1992: “The Middle East has oil; China has rare earths.”
They used cheap labor, non-existent environmental rules, and government money to build an empire.
Today, they control over 90% of the market for refining these essential metals.
Now, they have us in a chokehold. They can turn off the tap whenever they want. And they’ve already started to.
This isn’t just an economic issue. It’s a national security crisis. Created by our own leaders.
The Government’s “Solution” Is the Problem
So what’s the government’s brilliant plan to fix the mess they made? To become more like China.
I’m not kidding. They are now using your tax dollars to buy stakes in mining companies.
They are trying to create a “strategic mineral reserve.” They are trying to pick winners and losers. It’s a joke. A pathetic joke.
The government is an “E” (Employee) and “S” (Self-Employed) quadrant entity.
It’s full of people who have never built a business, never met a payroll, never risked their own capital.
And they think they can out-invest the market? They will fail. They always fail.
This is the same thinking that got us into this mess. It’s central planning. It’s socialism. And it never works.
The Real Opportunity
The real solution isn’t government intervention. The real solution is capitalism. It’s entrepreneurs. It’s investors. It’s the “B” and “I” quadrants.
The opportunity of a lifetime is staring us in the face.
While the government fumbles, smart investors can get in on the ground floor of rebuilding America’s mineral independence.
This is a real asset play. We are talking about owning the physical materials that the entire global economy depends on.
This is the ultimate supply and demand equation.
The supply was foolishly given away. The demand is exploding. What do you think will happen to the price of the remaining, accessible supply?
I’m not just buying gold and silver anymore.
I’m looking at the companies that are digging these rare earths out of the ground.
The companies in America, in Australia, in places that are not China. I’m investing in the real stuff. The tangible assets. The things that China can’t control.
You have a choice. You can trust the same government that created this crisis to solve it.
You can keep your money in paper assets that they can print into oblivion. Or you can wake up. You can learn the game.
You can start investing in the real assets that will build the future. The choice is yours. Make it a rich one.
Robert Kiyosaki
Editor, Money Power and Profit
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