Tobias Carlisle - A Modern Walter Schloss
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The Banana Republic
There was a book around in like the early 2000s about these activist investors taking control of a South American country's debt. They used to send guys down who would overthrow the government. That was their job. The term banana republic came from the banana companies used to topple these democratically elected presidents, topple these democratic governments so they could sell it bananas and van de Vanderbilt did exactly the same thing with his Panama Canal.
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