Technology has in turn spawned internalisation of trades by big investment banks off-exchange, alternative trading systems, and automated block trading.

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In our view, the problem is more exactly the internalisation of shareholder value pressures, and to illustrate the point we present below a kind of thought experiment about a different Apple (without shareholder value) which was willing to accept lower margins and employ more US blue collar labour.

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