Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
~ Paul A. Volcker
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.
