An increasingly popular method nowadays is to strangle traders not with high tariffs, which are easy to spot, but with red tape, which is not.

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In fact, Dr. Jardine created his tape in a standardized, easy to apply format so that it would be adopted by the general consumer market to help with sore and achy muscles.

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Also, the tape is thin, with little size on the inside market, making it easy for the market to make quick jumps in both directions.

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But it's pretty easy to get swept up in the post-victory emotion and the piles of ticker tape, and believe that a championship party shows a city at its best.

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