The story of trade and how it brings wealth, power and in many cases leadership, is as old as the hills. With the lessons from thousands of years of history, one would think that everyone today would know what makes that happen. For some reason, both the USA and UK have forgotten about that subject with dire consequences that even now as they face relegation to the bottom of the heap, oops, sorry, I made a mistake, they are already there!The story of how they both got there is a sad and frightening tale of ignorance, mismanagement, neglect, and lying politicians. Despite this, the answers are so simple that any one of us could fix the situation and this is what this book is all about. Unfortunately, unless it somehow gets to our leaders, ignorance for them will remain bliss until the inevitable chaos of an economic collapse rears its ugly head. My hope is that the readers of this book will pass on this message in time.