It has to be regarded as a powerful new force in a world where population growth and competition for resources have changed the economic and political ground rules for ever, apparently crippling the ability of old-style free-market economics to deliver growth.

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The competition will also force Apple to make better products and explore new avenues.

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Reg NMS does not cover commodity exchanges, which allows the member-owned, floor-trading New York Mercantile Exchange to sustain its old ways although competition from the all-electronic IntercontinentalExchange could also force it to change.

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Japan, by contrast, needed to scrap its antiquated banking system, migrate half of its industrial work force into new-technology exploits and open up its service economy to the withering discipline of foreign competition.

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