On 3/24/07, Daniel Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
basically because the whole nature of the game is that a lot depends on your contacts, so it's bound to concentrate in the spots where financiers meet, eat, drink and sleep with each other.
It's a profitable activity that helps the ruling classes of the world make major decisions about when, where, how much, and how to invest their capital. If we understand today's imperialism as a process of integration of the ruling classes of the world, first the Atlantic ruling classes (the US and the UK), then, the ruling classes of the rest of the OECD nations, the Gulf states, former "Asian tigers," key rising economies such as Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, and the rest, finance is the engine of that process of integration. -- Yoshie
