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The Wall St. news is that Travelers Group announced yesterday a $9 billion deal in which it will acquire Salomon Inc. and merge it with its Smith Barney unit, thereby creating the nation's second-largest investment bank.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday that the Australians had overtaken the Canadians to become the Western world's second-largest share owners, after the Americans.
Meanwhile, Japan--the world's second-largest economy and a country that by normal criteria ought to have no trouble increasing demand--finds itself stuck in exactly the trap Burnham described: "no longer able to find uses for the available investment funds, which waste in idleness in the account books of the banks."
Ireland is the world's second-largest software exporter, Barcelona is a center for e-startups, and Strasbourg is sprouting biotech firms.
By 1954, Avis was the second-largest company in the industry, behind only Hertz.