Moneybox: The more Starbucks a country has, the bigger its financial problems. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

Moneybox: The more Starbucks a country has, the bigger its financial problems. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine: "The higher the concentration of expensive, nautically themed, faux-Italian-branded Frappuccino joints in a country's financial capital, the more likely the country is to have suffered catastrophic financial losses."
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This theory has yet to be fully tested in empirical studies.