Eric Garlan was on the great James Howard Kuntsler podcast some while back talking about the failures of the big box model and how the fact Guitar Center basically makes no money. Eric talked about how these businesses mostly exist on debt occupying space in suburbia where the resistance to public and affordable hosing remain the structure of its existence. The discussion centered around St Louis as the town and region best exemplifies the spiraling downward direction this country has taken as corporate domination becomes the norm for the modern economy. St Louis is perhaps one of the scariest regions in the Western hemisphere and that is saying a lot when one considers the numerous favelas that are throughout Latin America. These extremes of living conditions have evidently influenced American ruling class and the politicians their money buys as they push for an agenda to increase inequalities like those in the United States and being a more efficient way to control popuations and kill off those unlucky to be born without mucho printed dinero. The amount of financial fraud being committed in the goal of unequal distribution of wealth and living standards in this country as Americans have the highest intolerance for prejudice based on class.
The contagion of business idiocy from free-market fundlementalists in this country and the squeeze and hold on the American economy was discussed by these futurists on the internet and they think places like Ferguson and St Louis will be the norm from a society willing to dump lower-income folks away from economic thriving and bustling places. they went on to discuss the investment strategies to carve out these mountains of debt urban areas and how only the connected and influential will be able to reside in them. These areas have become centers for international successful people who live in more than one continent and are courted by our politicians at the expense of long-time urban residents who find themselves more and more pushed out to the countryside with little hope of improving prospects. 
James and Eric marveled at how many places are apartheid towns like Ferguson where the white political structure holds all the top village and governmental positions as the black majority remains subjugated to ghettos and liquor store areas. St Louis will be joined by other large cities hat will see their economic fortunes drop thanks to politicians who put more emphasize on wealthy international investors and their wealthy chums in this country who prefer to see the extreme living conditions in this country as motivation and excuse for a police state that would be accepted by the middle class out of fear of the lower classes despite both classes getting shafted by those on top. Eric garland is cool and I recommend people check out his web site and use him as a client ho can help your business by predicting the future and telling you what places will be perpetual slums.
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