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...Iranian businessmen tell apocryphal tales of middlemen traversing the region with suitcases packed with hundreds of thousands of dollars; of developing a complex web of trading routes; and setting up offshore...
...It would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in snowy places like Nebraska and probably require an extra garage to house all the batteries, the CLSA brokerage calculated last year....
...Over two continents, five years, thousands of conference calls, and trillions of dollars, euros, and pounds deployed to rescue the world financial system, central bankers would take the primary role in grappling...
...Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America....
...But it’s a deep and difficult question, and no one’s come up with a simple way of making this work – one that doesn’t involve a significant extension of state power into the way in which credit and money...
...During the first half of the nine- teenth century, with business booming, New York’s population grew from sixty thousand to eight hundred thousand, and the city became America’s urban colossus....
...They were getting periodic updates from New York, where two deals were on the table – an offer from Barclays and one from Bank of America....
...Lamido Sanusi: Can you tell me one economy in the last eight, nine months that has not had exchange rate shocks? The United States, the dollar, the pound, the euro, the Russian rouble – none....
...all, the United States....
...And that’s the deal you get in a bankruptcy court. Only two parties do all right—the secured creditors and the advisors. They get 100 cents on the dollar....
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