Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.
Greece’s inward FDI stock exceeded its outward stock throughout the last decade, but in 2009 and 2010, its outward stock overtook inward stock due to the decline in the market value of assets in Greece.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.