The Minerals Consortium Will Result in Malinvestment

Tags: Interventionism, Booms and Busts

05/20/2026 Joseph Solis-Mullen

Washington is pursuing industrial policy again, this time being an attempt to form a minerals consortium with other countries to secure minerals vital to US manufacturing. No doubt, this initiative will end up on the ash heap of bad policy.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/minerals-consortium-will-result-malinvestment

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