Without money to grease them, the wheels of commerce turn slowly or not at all.
So perhaps Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity should simply accept that corruption provides the grease to keep the wheels of commerce turning.
Amid talks with the private sector on how to get the wheels of commerce turning again, Mr Maduro last month reappointed Eduardo Samán head of the powerful consumer-protection body, a post he held under Chávez.
"Everyone says they didn't get anything, that the secretary of the treasury turned them down, that the secretary of commerce turned them down," said Mr. Bowsher, who himself worked for Arthur Andersen, decades ago.
"This continuing history of the City is, among other things, a memorial to all those who spent too much of their lives sitting at desks, trading on market floors, keeping the wheels of finance and commerce turning.
But what began as just one more deal at the murky interface of art and commerce turned rapidly into a full-blown debate embracing some familiar ogres: American cultural imperialism, along with less muscular depictions of Britons proud of their past but cringing from the shadows of the Great American Novel.
In "Banknote," consideration of an inert scrap of paper leads to a vision of a vast and frantic system of commerce "turning the gear of custom"; in "Pliers," a simple tool designed to exert control evokes "this despair I feel / When I feel / I've lost my grip, can't manage a thing".
Keep the wheels of commerce turning, and the calories from Thanksgiving burning.
It is about the value of our savings, the power to purchase the everyday things we need and how we make the wheels of trade and commerce turn".
