Those malls and retailers are closing all over America because they simply are not needed today and I doubt they will ever come back. They were needed and kept in business during the bubble years when the US consumer had much bigger appetites and more fake money to squander on them
The US economy is structurally out of wack
A consumer driven economy is an idiotic economy
We have to get our production more in line w our consuming
Only problem is that due to automation and computerization we don’t need that many men to produce what what we need
What is your problem, pal? Are you just stuck on stupid?
What is this "what we need" cr*pola?
Is that for YOU to decide?
Don't you suppose that everyone can decide on their own, without your help, "what we need"?
Do you fantasize there is some natural limit to "what we need"?
There is not, of course. Most people want far more than what they have, whether they truly "need" it or not.
This has always been the case, always will be -- unless the government somehow contrives to suppress or corrupt people's natural desires.
As for getting "our production more in line w our consuming," this will happen entirely naturally, as a matter of course, once economic recovery is well under way, and unemployment begins to return to the 5% range.
So, not to worry.
Everything will be fine again economically, once voters return conservative Republicans to office, and they begin to get the government out of the way of prosperity.
Americans fully earn their lavish lifestyle and they freely choose to spend what they earn on big houses, big cars, big TVs, more clothes than they can wear, and plenty of bling.
Any philosopher can tell you that 90% of everything men have ever spent a dime on, they didn't truly need in any pure utility or survival sense. But comfort, entertainment, and pretty are what most men want, and they can afford it.
It is just other men's freedom...