Okay, I think I understand what you're saying. It certainly is easy to project the geopolitical status quo infinitely into the future, and just as certainly th

Okay, I think I understand what you're saying. It certainly is easy to project the geopolitical status quo infinitely into the future, and just as certainly that is wrong. But I think financial centers shift slowly -- we've only really seen three (London, New York, and Amsterdam) in as many centuries. Moreover, the traditions and rules of the predecessors are often carried over to the successors, and we can probably expect this continuity to be even stronger in the future, given the greater degree of global interconnectedness. So I guess what I'm saying is that it will be some time before we seen a financial industry like that of the turn of the 21st century, no matter where you look.