(One investor told me that he had looked into buying the private Swiss company that makes the ink used on dollar bills: "They told me, 'We no sell eet.' ") Negrych believes that there is a commercial-financial complex, analogous to the military-industrial complex (merchants of debt, rather than of death), which promotes borrowing and spending, and spins indebtedness into fool's gold.
Using scenic simplicity to complex effect, this "Merchant" exudes elegance, but always in the service of a vision of a society that is, at its core, most inelegant.
And even in that darkly complex play The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare makes it difficult for us not to sympathise with Shylock when he asks: "If you prick us, do we not bleed?
It's a sign of how complex, and critical merchants payments have become that the person in charge now often reports to someone in the C-Suite, said Michael Roberts, chief marketing and digital strategy officer, at Bank of America Merchant Services.
That, at least, is the promise of Lands' End, the catalog and Web merchant, whose complex system of swimwear to fit nearly every body shape inspires fierce devotion from women.
A merchant-military complex in the cities had hoarded things for itself.
Online merchants face a complex sales environment.
There's Cleverbridge, the payments processor ramping up compliance offerings for online merchants facing the complex global regulatory landscape.
The world of merchant shipping is undeniably complex.
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