The last few months aside the rules for trade, migration and travel are the best they have ever been.

Walter Wriston wrote The Twilight of Sovereignty in 1992 and predicted that what the state was able to control would decrease over the next 30 years. It has happened and no matter how the media spin it we now have more trade, more tourism and more migration than ever before in history. The rules have followed the reality and no one is in charge.

Because of these changes billions of people live better than we ever dreamed of. There is much that we still need to accomplish for the poorest 10% but take a bow, poverty is almost ended.