Sublime

Ivar’s grand idea was to do just what Harley had done, except with matches instead of South Seas trade. Ivar would lend money to the governments of Europe in exchange for a monopoly concession for the production and sale of matches within their territories. It was a brilliant concept. There was one immediate problem, though: Ivar didn’t have enough

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Substack is under attack again. The crusade is led by a site contributor, Jonathan Katz, whose style might be characterized as embittered-conventional

Halstead is a sophisticated, "rational" businessman. He knows that the Corporal's strong and unrelenting penny-saving is essential to the survival of the organization in "today's highly competitive business world." What he doesn't understand is that the business is being strangled by his own efforts to maintain profits by cuttin

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