By 1980 we will be self-sufficient and will not need to rely on foreign enemies . A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring. The unemployment rate was so low that if your dog wandered into a McDonald's, it would wander out wearing a trainee badge. I'd argue that there is more unbalanced thinking about finance than about anything else. Death and sex may be the mainstays of psychoanalysis, but note that few shrinks ask to be paid in murders or marriages.
Some people profit from economic privation.
Economists, for instance. John Maynard Keynes couldn't have become a big shot, guiding government intervention in business and finance, if it hadn't been for the Great Depression. I now realize that if I'd owned Hong Kong, I would have given it back to the Chinese too. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the poverty, not the difference. Margaret Thatcher will never speak well on television.