Markets convene in conversations, not in taxonomies or on trading floors. That was true when investors in ships going to or coming from the spice islands convened in Amsterdam coffee shops to figure out how to share risk and return in the exploding opportunity ahead of them. Those transaction-intensive, one-off deals created the Dutch Bourse.
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