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Bessent explains Wall Street, the financial press, and Democrats keep being proved wrong—contrasting Canada’s job losses with a blowout U.S. jobs report, calling out FT/WSJ panic, and framing a Red Queen economy that must outrun debt, China, and skills gaps.
Bessent named the IRGC’s trusts in the British Virgin Islands on live TV. Barbara and Susan on two fronts, Carney, and less than 60 days to the midterms.
The U.S. is exposed on critical minerals — not just in the ground, but in how we process them. Ben Deniston on the higher-energy technologies that could close that gap for good.
America's critical mineral supply chain is broken. The Trump administration is moving fast to fix it, but the real play isn't just where we mine, it's how we process. Ben Deniston breaks down the U.S. vulnerability, the policy moves already underway, and the frontier technologies that could shatter the old limits entirely—pulse-power processing, flash Joule heating, plasma arc furnaces, and the fusion torch. The key metric? Energy flux-density: the unifying principle behind every leap in human productivity, from the iron age to the fusion age. This isn't only a supply chain story. It's a story about what American economic power can actually become.
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00:00 Critical Minerals Push
00:45 Why Processing Matters
01:54 What Are Critical Minerals
03:28 Trump Policy Actions
04:55 Processing Stages Overview
05:49 Fusion Torch Vision
07:19 Plasma and Flash Joule
09:01 Pulse Power and Directed Energy
09:59 Energy Flux Density Explained
10:31 Steelmaking Productivity Case
11:26 Universal Principle of Progress
12:30 Wrap Up
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