CamMacFarlane

Just a couple days ago I gained a whole new appreciation for stamps after listening to this 99pi podcast about US stamps:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-47-us-postal-s...

I found myself genuinely considering starting to collect them.

This is great, as someone who frequently transfers money from the US to Canada I wish I had known about this sooner. Hopefully they can actually make some money.

Seems like the latter

Best cold war "joke":

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/ReaganBe...

Found from searching for more like OPs

[USA] has the highest GDP per capita in the world

Not quite, it has the 18th highest. Below Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Ireland all who pay less for engineering.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...