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Nashville Built a Real Market Cluster. Oak Ridge Was Built From Nothing By the Government.
Forty-six Nashville-based healthcare companies generate nearly $97 billion in revenue and 492,000+ jobs -- a genuine market-built cluster. Twenty miles away, Oak Ridge is the opposite story: a city the federal government built from nothing in 1942 for the Manhattan Project.
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Hawaii's tone is read from San Francisco. Its land was never priced by a market either.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco folds Hawaii into a nine-state region already dominated by California -- there's no separate Ha...
Alaska turned its land settlement into shares. Hawaii's never became shares at all.
Alaska was bought for $7.2 million in 1867, about two cents an acre. A 1971 land settlement split the state's land among corporations rat...
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