We have benefited from the surge in commodity prices driven by the rapid industrialisation of China, and from the increased demand for our food products, tourism, education and other services as incomes in Asia have grown. But it is a competitive world out there, and other countries see these opportunities too.
Every bit the reformer throughout his decades of public service, Moynihan seemed reluctantly resigned to society's construct: "In this sense, the agencies of control often seem to define their job as that of keeping deviance within bounds rather than that of obliterating it altogether."