Word: markets
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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...
...staying in the stock market now a mistake? I'm sure some people will make a lot of money at a time like this, but you have to be very well informed as well as in a position to take risks...
...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...