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...financing railroads to bring minerals and foodstuffs to export terminals. The tracks were laid not to connect internal areas one another, but to connect production centers with ports ... thus railroads, so often hailed as forerunners of progress, were an impediment to the formation and development of an internal market...
What do you think about investing in the real estate market now, while prices are so depressed? It's a buyer's market and it's a good time to buy. If anyone is selling now it's probably due to one of the three D's: debt, divorce or death...
...meeting vociferous opposition from Sun's board, particularly from its chairman, the company's legendary founder Scott McNealy.) With the Sun acquisition, Ellison gets a soup-to-nuts business and the ability to integrate everything from chips to boxes to software. But better than serving the fickle consumer market, as Apple does, he gets to slice off the top of the far more lucrative business market. That allows him to protect his margins and better control his company's destiny - just like Jobs...
...bitterly ironic that the policies of privatization and the free-market system forced on Africa by the Western-controlled World Bank and IMF (that have devastated many African countries) are now being reversed in the U.S. Whereas poor, suffering Americans need to be protected from the full consequences of their free-market principles (which should allow AIG, GM and the rest of them to fail), Africans were afforded no such protection - presumably because they don't vote in U.S. elections. Alex Potter, CLAREMONT, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Market and get yourself a pint of Toscanini's ice cream. Whatever flavor you like. We're thinking grasshopper cookie. See you there...