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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (73276)4/24/2010 10:26:51 AM
From: Snowshoe   of 74559
 
>>that's not really how the Anglos took over so much<<

Mq, that's what made the USA!

1) First we got Britain to help us kick the French out.

2) Next we got France to help us kick the British out.

3) Then Manifest Destiny took over and we spread ourselves from Sea to Shining Sea.

Thus we got the world's largest common market, operating under a common language, common laws, and a common currency. Those are incredible economic and sociological advantages.

In comparison, just look at the problems Europe still has with all its petty little fiefdoms and umpteen languages. Like the 27 national air traffic control networks that hampered coordination over the recent volcano ash fallout...

Europe seeks new air traffic control system
news.yahoo.com
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