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Ed Elson speaks with Gracelin Baskaran, director of the Critical Minerals Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about what makes Greenland’s mineral resources so valuable to the United States. Then Ed breaks down the response to California’s new proposed tax on billionaires and explains why he thinks it may not work.
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