“The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.”

John Maynard Keynes

~ John Maynard Keynes
(1883-1946) British economist
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (London: Macmillan, 1919), p. 11

Anonymous 7/26/05