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The world is better off without Marc Rich – but his heirs still control the price of almost everything

6 July 2013

9:00 AM

6 July 2013

9:00 AM

Marc Rich, the godfather of global commodity trading who died last week, ‘deserves credit as one of the greatest creators and sharers of wealth in business history’, wrote James Breiding in the Financial Times in a counterblast to obituarists who had painted the secretive Swiss-based billionaire and former fugitive from US justice as ‘a flamboyant, tax-evading crook’.

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