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Jim Risch: “There really is no market. I mean, there is a monopoly today.”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2010
There really is no market. I mean, there is a monopoly today.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch points out the lack of a market for rare earths due to existing monopolies.

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