This is also a large part of why the US is as powerful as it is. Through a quirk of history and geography, it found itself with enormous amounts of highly produ

This is also a large part of why the US is as powerful as it is. Through a quirk of history and geography, it found itself with enormous amounts of highly productive land, crammed with resources and thousands of miles and oceans away from conflicts which decimated others. For all the high-minded aspirations of the early Americans, their grand experiment would not have worked so well if they'd annexed Greenland. > raising capital for a hedge fund and I start talking about the geological properties of the earth under my house then I will carted out. Certainly they'd be wondering why you're faffing about with a hedge fund when you could be mining that.