globalization & Pynchon?

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"Globalization" is not a question of import and export, but of the growing 
interdependence of the worldwide acting stock markets.

Saskia Sassen: "Technimetrics reports that at the end of  1997 25 cities 
ruled  83 % of the worldwide value of capital. These 25 cities fixed 48 % of 
the global capitalization of the stock markets... But the >global< market is 
concentrated at 6 or 7 big cities. London, New York and Tokyo are managing 
one third of the stocks of the investment fonds worldwide. London and New 
York are controlling more than a half of the worldwide foreign exchange 
trading." 
My re-translation from German, cited of:
Saskia Sassen, Machtbeben. Wohin führt die Globalisierung?, Stuttgart/München 
2000, S. 117.

Kurt-Werner Pörtner