Some occupy strategic positions which give them advance information of forces that affect the market; and by training and an innate turn that way they have acquired a special technique which enables them to use the vast impersonal tide to turn their own wheels.
Dewey describes how some individuals leverage their knowledge and position to influence market forces.
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