The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press. (Marshall McLuhan)

The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press.

Marshall McLuhan

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