Empires come. Empires go. If there’s any doubt that the British Empire is long past–and the American Empire headed downhill–it’s dispelled in this article in today’s New York Times:
Ford Sells Luxury Brands for $1.7 Billion.
Ford Motor Company, once great automobile company in the former British colony now known as the United States, is selling the Jaguar and Land Rover brands that once belonged to England, the former homeland of the British Empire, to new owner Tata Motors Limited, of Mumbai, in a country once known as the Jewel of the British Empire and better known these days as simply “India”. It must be very sweet for Tata and the Indian nation as a whole. The 1.7 billion is roughly a third of the $5.2 billion Ford had paid to buy the brands.
Tata had recently announced that it would be soon selling the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, priced at $2,500.
