Dense cities are the world's traditional marketplaces, where people come together to trade goods and services in pursuit of profit. But what happens when the world's markets are warped? This year's marquee initial public offering—the app-based car-hailing service Lyft, set to debut Friday on the Nasdaq exchange—isn't so much a gauge of functional, robust markets, but a marker of the challenge that global cities face amid the whims of central bankers and venture capitalists.
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