Merchants
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The best antidote to the doom
merchants
is skepticism.
In the Middle Ages, Zanzibar and other East African cities served as trading hubs for Asian
merchants.
Merchants
who seek to build their business on a strong base of regular customers are unlikely to engage in fraud.
And if one town gets the goods, but another does not, then
merchants
will have an incentive to arbitrage (buying goods where they are abundant and selling them where they are scarce), thus evening things out.
It allows tea growers, furniture makers, suitcase manufacturers, and other small producers and merchants, including those from remote villages, to reach their customers in Shanghai and Beijing (and even overseas) easily and cheaply.
Jaza Duka – a partnership among Mastercard, Unilever, and Kenya Commercial Bank – is a digital platform that, since its introduction in 2017, has been helping to ensure that small
merchants
have access to the working capital they need to compete and grow.
Nonetheless, producers and
merchants
ultimately manage to circumvent the restrictions, say, by rerouting shipments.
In Sapiens, Harari chronicles the efforts of merchants, prophets, and conquerors, over millennia, to “establish an order that would be applicable for everyone everywhere.”
Outsiders – foreign
merchants
and soldiers – as well as the marginalized poor were fingered as the culprits.
and then others say, "Well, if Oblonsky goes there..." ''Not at all!'Levin could hear that Oblonsky said this with a smile; 'I simply don't consider him more dishonest than any of the rich
merchants
or noblemen.
Everything, including the splendid dinner and the wines – which did not come from Russian
merchants
but were imported ready-bottled from abroad – was very distinguished, simple, and gay.
All these cloth
merchants
are jealous of me, I am certain of it; two or three of them are growing rich; very well, I wish them to see M. de Renal's children go by, out walking in the care of their tutor.
When 'tis expired,' said she, 'they have encouragement given them to plant for themselves; for they have a certain number of acres of land allotted them by the country, and they go to work to clear and cure the land, and then to plant it with tobacco and corn for their own use; and as the tradesmen and
merchants
will trust them with tools and clothes and other necessaries, upon the credit of their crop before it is grown, so they again plant every year a little more than the year before, and so buy whatever they want with the crop that is before them.
This is the way they amuse themselves while they dangle their legs over Big Chief Mountain and wait for it:"Our
merchants
have responded to the recent good feeling which has pervaded the town since word came that President Mutrie, on his return to Denver, was favorably considering the claims of Rustler.
Immediately the aldermen, clothed in their cloth robes and preceded by six sergeants, each holding a FLAMBEAU in his hand, went to attend upon the king, whom they met on the steps, where the provost of the
merchants
made him the speech of welcome--a compliment to which his Majesty replied with an apology for coming so late, laying the blame upon the cardinal, who had detained him till eleven o’clock, talking of affairs of state.
Here live the
merchants
and traders, in wooden cabins made of red planks set horizontally; the other street, running west, ends at the little lake between the house of the bishop and other non-commercial people.
There I saw the Exchange and the Bank and Lloyd's Coffee House, with the brown-coated, sharp-faced
merchants
and the hurrying clerks, the huge horses and the busy draymen.
A volunteer corps of clerks and
merchants
had been formed, and this I joined, wooden leg and all.
A lay brother, one of those who followed in the train, had, for his use on other occasions, one of the most handsome Spanish jennets ever bred at Andalusia, which
merchants
used at that time to import, with great trouble and risk, for the use of persons of wealth and distinction.
And our society has so shaped itself that the more the people work the richer the
merchants
and landowners will become, while the people will remain beasts of burden for ever.
Little by little the scene on the quay became more animated; sailors of various nations, merchants, ship-brokers, porters, fellahs, bustled to and fro as if the steamer were immediately expected.
These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster--the most thrifty, civilised, intelligent, and austere of the East Indians, among whom are counted the richest native
merchants
of Bombay--were celebrating a sort of religious carnival, with processions and shows, in the midst of which Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.
Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them to the eastern coast.
She had, it seems, a Parsee relation, who was one of the principal
merchants
of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast.
Many of the Parsee
merchants
have made great fortunes there by dealing in cotton; and one of them, Sir Jametsee Jeejeebhoy, was made a baronet by the English government.
Meeting a broker, he made the inquiry, to learn that Jeejeeh had left China two years before, and, retiring from business with an immense fortune, had taken up his residence in Europe--in Holland the broker thought, with the
merchants
of which country he had principally traded.
Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English
merchants
sell every year the miserable drug called opium, to the amount of one million four hundred thousand pounds--thousands devoted to one of the most despicable vices which afflict humanity!
Here, as at Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly
merchants
ready to buy or sell anything.
Here we got in, and though not without much difficulty, got all safe on shore, and walked afterwards on foot to Yarmouth, where, as unfortunate men, we were used with great humanity, as well by the magistrates of the town, who assigned us good quarters, as by particular
merchants
and owners of ships, and had money given us sufficient to carry us either to London or back to Hull as we thought fit.
I wrote the English captain’s widow a full account of all my adventures—my slavery, escape, and how I had met with the Portuguese captain at sea, the humanity of his behaviour, and what condition I was now in, with all other necessary directions for my supply; and when this honest captain came to Lisbon, he found means, by some of the English
merchants
there, to send over, not the order only, but a full account of my story to a merchant in London, who represented it effectually to her; whereupon she not only delivered the money, but out of her own pocket sent the Portugal captain a very handsome present for his humanity and charity to me.
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