David Brancaccio

Bloomberg News is reporting that the Trump administration is setting up a $12 billion minerals reserve, an effort to mute China's ability to leverage its supplies.

Think strategic crude oil reserve, but for rare earths.

Stocks in the miners way up this morning, up 6.5% for USA Rare Earths Inc.

To Japan now, where one out of every five people over the age of 65 is living with dementia or has early symptoms.

Tech companies in Japan are focused on this.

The BBC's Suranjana Tiwari reports.

Surjanan Tiwari is with our newsroom partners at the BBC.

I'm David Brancaccio, Marketplace Morning Report, from APM, American Public Media.

Would you bet that this artificial intelligence balloon will soar even beyond the stratosphere?

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

First, nervous markets this morning.

Silver, the commodity, has lost nearly a quarter of its value over the last five days, although there's a small bounce back at the moment.

Gold is up a sliver this morning after its biggest one-day drop since the 1980s.

Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer is following this.

In effect now, in five states, a ban on using food stamps to buy sugary drinks and junk food.

More than a dozen other states have similar rules on the way.

Marketplace's Samantha Fields has an update.

An estimated 80% of the rise of the stock market last January through November came from exuberance over artificial intelligence.

But even if the technology is the revolution promised, these things are not linear.

In the 1880s, building railroads revolutionized the U.S.