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(133,085 posts) Tue Jul 15, 2025, 02:35 PM Jul 2025

Pentagon Buys Into Rare Earth Miner

Pentagon Buys Into Rare Earth Miner

July 15, 2025 at 1:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/07/15/pentagon-buys-into-rare-earth-miner/

“The Defense Department will become the largest shareholder in rare earth miner MP Materials,” CNBC reports.

Goddard:

I’m old enough to remember when this was called “socialism.”

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Pentagon Buys Into Rare Earth Miner (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2025 OP

Wow! I had no idea I could have sold my company... S/V Loner Jul 2025 #1

Socialism for thee but not for me. applegrove Jul 2025 #2

S/V Loner

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1. Wow! I had no idea I could have sold my company...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:25 PM

Jul 2025

to the DOD. That would haven made my retirement a lot easier to get done rather than find an independent buyer especially when the DOD panicked and thought I was just going to just shut down. I did find a buyer.

applegrove

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2. Socialism for thee but not for me.

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 04:32 PM

Jul 2025

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