"When it shall be your pleasure to repair hither you should take some pain to come early in the morning, that you may be gone again by seven o'clock, " it reads.

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The people you know in your industry may be gone.

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Add to that the growing concern that the global economy is once again stumbling and that commodity prices may be near a top, and you have a Chinese deal-making market that has gone from 60 to zero in no time.

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