It is fashionable to disdain government today, dismissing it as a maze of misanthropic bureaucracy responsible for undermining the marketplace and stripping much-needed dollars from individual citizens and the economy.

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In many cases, EU-funded projects are duplications of other projects or efforts to re-invent the wheal-the writing of books and manuals and the development of software that can be purchased for a few hundred dollars in the marketplace.

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The auto industry is the largest pool of U.S. advertising dollars and often can make or break a marketplace.

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By cutting transaction expenses, aggregating buying power, holding auctions in order to lower prices and exploiting the efficiencies of a single marketplace, the companies hope to save billions of dollars while simultaneously making a fortune on their stakes in the exchange itself, which is to be floated as a stand-alone firm next year.

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