The 'Mother of All Trades': The Baltic Grain Trade in Amsterdam from the ... - Milja van Tielhof - Google Books

[Mark Kohut]

This"Baltic run" use by TRP, something not via the East India company,
evidently, and
full of pirates is another wonderful outsider, outlaw, akin to a Low-Lands
route bit .......

but, having just learned of it, I am reminded of the Baltic Dry Index, a
measure of
ships transporting stuff over that route---I guess?---which has in recent
decades
OFTEN been a predictor of the strength of the world economy.....(one must
know when it isn't and why, of course)

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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