Wealth of Nations Citation

CRATE AND BARREL

The housewares chain has found a novel way to prod consumers to snap up East German-produced King Wenceslas tree ornaments: "The democratization of Eastern Europe will almost certainly drive the cost of these ornaments beyond what we believe they should cost."

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