In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones, and when the industrial monsters… — Robert Heilbroner
In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones, and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.
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