[patrickk]

Britain subsequently benefited from transforming itself from an imperial power to a financial power. Good documentary on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uM2cdhfAGA

This is the reason that there's so many rich Russians knocking about e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/p83ljc/offshore_adv...

[bserge]

They were a financial power long before. It kinda came with the territory, being a global empire.

They did well to hold on to it, though.

[7sidedmarble]

How can you look at the history of the British trade companies and not see how intertwined imperialism and what we today call 'finance' are?