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Media Highlights Radio • February 27, 2026 

# Veronique de Rugy discusses the Export-Import Bank using rare earth minerals as a pretext to expand lending authority on CBS Radio’s *Eye on the World* with John Batchelor 

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##### [Veronique de Rugy](/people/veronique-derugy)

George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center