[stayathomemom]

I remember reading an article in Smithsonian magazine years ago about a town that faced the demise of their downtown due to the building of a Walmart nearby. I think the downtown shops got together and came up with ideas to strengthen the downtown shopping experience by making it a desirable place to shop in addition to Walmart. They emphasized uniqueness of products and personalized service.

[AnalogReigns]

Economic prosperity breeds MORE economic prosperity. Maybe not the same kind, but, other kinds.

Free markets change and adjust—businesses rise and fail.

The problem today is that regulation—local and federal—makes is much harder for new businesses to rise, hence when change makes them fail, new ones don’t replace them...and we have rust-belt style blight.

And we wonder why the rust-belt happens to also be in the bluer of blue states?