By Jeffrey Quiggle The British PM announced her resignation Oct. 20 amidst an economic and political storm in the United Kingdom. Thoughts turned to the future in the United Kingdom on Oct. 20 after Conservative Party leader Liz Truss announced her intention to retire and thus become the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. Truss and her party’s plan for radical tax cuts, which by most accounts included scant concerns about paying for them, shocked investors who were concerned the country could not afford them. The pound’s value plunged as mortgage costs rose. At the same time, …