All revolutions are to some degree about money. — Mark Kurlansky

The American Revolution was the first great anticolonialist movement. It was about political freedom. But in the minds of its most hard-line revolutionaries, the New England radicals, the central expression of that freedom was the ability to make their own decisions about their own economy.

In trade, it is an almost infallible natural law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping ground for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.

It is harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.