To retailers who have invested so much time and money into their shops, this brings something more.

You can't make a living on the farming anymore. There's more money in the furniture shops.

I've proven I can win on Nantucket. Money can only buy newspaper ads and TV time. It's not the same as a handshake and having someone ask for your vote.

At that time, there weren't any other hat shops here.

Everything depends on this week and whether people will come to the shops in droves to spend the money they have been given as presents.

In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.