Wow, it sucks when the present tense catches up with you like that

"The world's politics seems deeply troubled, with daily reports of bombings, terror plots, rogue states, and civil strife. And yet the global economy forges ahead, not without significant interruptions and crises, but still vigorously upward on the whole. Markets do panic but over economic not political news. The front page of the newspaper seems unconnected to the business section."

Fareed Zakaria: The Post-American World, page 7 (published in 2008)