It looks like Walgreens has bowed to customer pressure anddecided not to relocate its corporate headquarters from Illinois toSwitzerland after all.

Now, regardless of how you feel about our steep corporate taxrate, the labyrinthine loopholes or even overpaid CEOs, what I likeabout this is the effectiveness of the market.

In short, the company faced a backlash over their threat to moveoverseas. It generated enough outrage and bad press that executiveshave announced the company will remain stateside. That's marketforces at work. No government intervention needed.

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