For years I have written about the buying and selling of businesses, usually in that detached tone favoured by the financial community. A corporate figure [nearly always a man! is interviewed and boasts about his company and its acquisition. He talks about cutting overheads, making assets sweat - in other words, closing plants and sacking people. Or an analyst speaks knowingly about a business losing its focus on core activities. And I lap it up.
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