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Their popularity has even gripped Wall Street, where investors and strategists increasingly rely on their odds as a kind of gut check.

They lose so much weight that the grip of their shackles grows loose; their eyesight deteriorates and their nails fall out.

Automotive, electronics and defense companies in the U.S. and around the world have struggled to get supplies, elevating China’s grip on rare earths to a central place in trade negotiations with Washington.

Still, bearing in mind AI’s potential benefits, everyone is gripped by FOLO—the fear of losing out.

There has been a flood of similar microcap IPOs over the past two years, another sign of the speculative fever gripping many parts of the investing world.