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Northern investment went into long-term productivity, trade and commerce, capital markets and banking, and industrialization.
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“And that's why all the investment money in the North was going into things with long-term productivity,”
“into trade and commerce.”
“into advanced capital markets and the banking system and,”
“of course, into industrialization.”1:05:42Report a misattribution
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