Economics
Chinese Capitalists Gloat as Hedge-Fund Boss From Harvard Sinks
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Yttrium, Scandium and Dysprosium sound like planets in a sci-fi movie teeming with blue Na’vi.
In fact, they’re "rare earth minerals" that China has in abundance -- elements essential to making iPods and hybrid-car batteries, as Ian Bremmer writes in "The End of the Free Market," one of three recent books assessing the state of capitalism in the wake of a financial implosion that battered many an Ivy-League hedge-fund manager.