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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages SuperGrok Premium Lists Bookmarks Communities Profile More Post Maanav Khaitan @MaanavKhaitan Article Reply See new posts Conversation Diogenes @diogenes Black Friday: What Happened? 63 338 1.2K 234K The morning of October 9th, at around 6AM PST, it came out that China was weaponizing its access to rare earth metals. While this announcement largely flew under the radar, it received significant attention on right wing twitter. Aaron Slodov @aphysicist · Oct 9 CHINA JUST WEAPONIZED THE ENTIRE RARE EARTH SUPPLY CHAIN get used to reading chinese MOFCOM bulletins because they're writing american industrial policy now. announced today: any product containing >0.1% chinese rare earth materials needs beijing's approval before re-export to Show more 814 2.4K 7.6K 1.9M At around 1:30 PM the following day, a series of mysterious traders started to go short the market on Hyperliq

The morning of October 9th, at around 6AM PST, it came out that China was weaponizing its access to rare earth metals. While this announcement largely flew under the radar, it received significant attention on right wing twitter. At around 1:30 PM the following day, a series of mysterious traders started to go short the market on Hyperliquid on large size. The price of BTC had declined from 121k to 117k. At 1:57PM PST, Donald Trump, via Truth Social, announced a 100% tariff on Chinese goods in response to the rare earth metals announcement. The price of BTC plunged from $117k to as low as…

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