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a place where strangers agree on prices nobody fully controls and everybody pretends to.
originFrom Latin mercatus, tied to Mercury, god of trade
oldestÇatalhöyük traded obsidian over 9,000 years ago
invisible handAdam Smith used the phrase only thrice
animalWall Street's bull and bear date to 1700s slang
flash crashIn 2010 markets lost a trillion in minutes