By The Numbers - part the eighty ninth

Keith Bradsher has been has been reporting about and from China for some time. So, it should be no surprise that he posts another report on the rare earths situation. Yet another case of Mad Dictator Don endulging his id before anything else.

Processing rare earths is technically demanding, but China has developed new processes. Rare earth chemistry programs are offered in 39 universities across the country, while the United States has no similar programs.

I guess Making America Great Again will develop as God's will? He will implant giga-tonnes of those ores in the Deepest Red States. You know, the ones that don't abide environmental or labor or property rights (just ask the Forest Service designee).

And, yes, it is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer that Mad Dictator Don got rejected by all those quality schools, Harvard and Penn in particular (I believe Wolfe before Mad Dictator Don in the former case, and the latter is well documented). He blares that he graduated from Wharton, but doesn't mention that he didn't get accepted as a frosh, his drunk brother greased the back door as a junior for him to transfer, that it wasn't the coveted MBA, and (finally) it was just a BA in Real Estate Economics (whatever that is), a basket weaving course that accepted nearly everyone who applied all those decades ago.