Frankfurt: A story of path dependency
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It’s funny how Frankfurt, which became Germany’s global banking center after World War II, carries this fact already in its name: the ford the Franks used to cross the Main (sic) river to trade with the Romans. The tribe they would eventually supplant as the dominating European power.