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1. We certainly have a supply-side nightmare when it comes to the
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 04:02 PM
Sep 2013

supply of relatively useless stuff, but we are all hurting because this ocean of money is not being lent/borrowed for projects, goods or services that are plainly needed in the world.

Thus, we get 30 different types of toothpaste for the first world, but no bridge and infrastructure repair.

For the third world, Monsanto will 'invest' in providing Africa with patented seed, but no one can seem to provide Africans with a 5-cent dose of Vitamin E to prevent river blindness.

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