FOR proud Indians, nothing—except perhaps victory for their national cricket team—is as sweet as the sight of Indian companies marauding acquisitively across the globe.
The central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has cemented its reputation for eccentricity with an ambitious attempt to create a vast lake in the centre of the country's Karakum desert.
Throughout American history there has almost always been at least one central economic narrative that gave the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to pack up and seek their fortune elsewhere.