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Investigating the Overlooked

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Not opposed, the same economy
The country's default framing puts the Farm Belt and the Rust Belt on one side and Wall Street and Silicon Valley on the other -- two Americas, pulling apart. The single largest, most successful investment company built on Wall Street's own turf isn't headquartered on Wall Street at all. It's headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, by deliberate choice, and its money runs through the Farm Belt in ways the standard map never shows.
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Farmers Were Dumping Grain Into Lake Michigan. That's Why the World's Biggest Derivatives Exchange Is in Chicago.
The world's largest futures exchange by volume traces back to farmers dumping grain into Lake Michigan in the 1840s because storing it co...
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