The Rockefellers mainly bought from dealers.
Those who did mainly bought soft furnishings.
In Asia gas is mainly bought and sold at prices set by contracts linked directly to (currently high) oil prices.
That's what's happening now, with debt deflation made especially ugly by the fact that key financial players are highly leveraged — their assets were mainly bought with borrowed money.
Whereas Japanese investors mainly bought French Impressionists in the late 1980s, today's emerging buyers from places such as Russia, China and Latin America have more eclectic tastes.
Shoppers stayed home in droves, and those who have made purchases since then have mainly bought household goods, not the fashionable clothes that department stores sell.
While other companies have mainly bought businesses that produce natural gas and oil, Shell, for the time being at least, seems to be trying to strengthen its position in refining and retail sales of petroleum products.
So why is Tincknell insisting that his architect-designed minting machine – which will be mainly bought by foreigners who will never live there – will somehow become Ambridge-on-Thames?
