"Three puffs of smoke in rapid succession usually indicate danger, trouble, or a call for help" (View Post)

"We became rich off the back of the world's poor." To a very small extent. Nearly all of the growth in GDP per head over the last 200 years is the result of technological advances (View Post)

Otoh, from your source which relates to @Richard_Tyndall 's point: "vast numbers of Americans - particularly the Middle Classes - got poorer whilst a much smaller number at the top got richer. &… (View Post)

Patience needed - the wait is just three days (View Post)

A Pattern of Islands - lovely book by Arthur Grimble who as a rookie civil servant was sent out to administer the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as a British colony in1913 (View Post)