My guess is that your neigborhood turned into a depressed slum.

Add Sears to that list unless they already closed and I missed it. Who goes to ANY of those store regularly?

The Fed prints it or more accurately enters numbers into computers. The Federal Reserve owns the printing presses.

If you don't think that finance doesn't influence who has jobs you are abysmally ignorant. How do you think companies get money to expand? How do you think they get money even to surive? The big ones sell stocks and bonds to raise cash.

I doubt in the vast majority of cases the kids need to be "forced by gunpoint". When the choices are "Work in the plantations or starve" working in the plantations will win every time. These countries are far poorer than the US in 1900 when we still had child labor and they weren't slaves either. They have had Western ...more

If the people running Sesemee Street can't make money off it they need to get different jobs! Sesemee Street is a gold mine. They sell everything from toothpaste to toys to books. If they can't do it they can give me the rights to it. :) I will take just 1% off the top and I guarantee it would make money and I would ha...more

And R&D is expensive and the economy of scale is not there. Cars are far cheaper to make when you have little R&D to do any you can spread fixed costs among 100s of thousands or millions of sales as compared to less than 10,000.

Infrastructure is not free. Are you willing to shell out hundreds of thousands if not millions to guild a station that no one uses? Why would anyone else?

Agreed, diesels are practical EVs are not. They need to get much cheaper and get greater range for them to be practical.