Should this materialise, it will be good news both for those who stay and those who, like so many Irish over the years, leave to explore possibilities abroad. Meanwhile, it is for us in the older generations to re-establish the conditions for this stable growth.
Kindleberger cites one banker who invested in shares of the South Sea Company in 1720 as saying that, if the rest of the world takes leave of its senses, one must join in to a certain extent.