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Isaac Singer

A 150-year-old invention keeps on remaking the world.

As the stock market has bounced up and down this year, there has been much talk about the Old Economy and the New Economy. But the Old Economy, however temporarily unfashionable it may be on Wall Street, is still very much with us.

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