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So basically, this over-emphasis on The Market forces everyone to mainly focus on how well 3M, Amazon and Microsoft do. Give them free reign or else you have no retirement.

The stock market is becoming less and less of the economy all the time as a buttload of companies have merged and/or gone private. I wouldn't be surprised if the Wilshire 5000 has to become the Wilshire 4000 soon. ~3.5 million businesses in this country and that few of them are public.

they couldn't give less of a crap surely they have parts of their state that screw up their politics too

He'll beat DeWine for sure by doing this!

I'm trying to figure out what the Spanish Flu's effect was on permanent business closures, especially in Ohio. I suspect it wasn't nearly as bad since the cost of doing business back then was so much lower than it is today and companies were more used to business disruptions for various reasons.

40-80 years old is when structures are most vulnerable to demolition for being "outdated", "not suited to modern use", "not ADA compliant" etc.

And if you find a gravel road in Ohio there usually a million loose dogs on it.

It was trash anyway.

Until recently the narrative surrounding WH Harrison mostly revolved around how he got sick from his inauguration speech in the winter then died after a very short time in office. I don't think many people knew anything else.

Columbus struggles with that as well. It's one reason why houses over $1M sell slowly here.

Ha yes, everyone gets their bonus the night they play the Orlando Magic

No Charlie Brown jokes or anything

^Athletes are big enough "accounts" that they have to have an account set up in each city they play. They can make more in one night than the average worker makes in a year. The cities chase their money accordingly.

Those young guys usually only know how to make money under very specific market conditions that don't last.

Unbelievable how grindey suburbs and suburbanites can be. Every region should be a JEDD. That wouldn't change earnings tax though.

OK story time. When I opened my first store in Grandview it was next to a dog grooming place. These people were printing money. They charged $125 per dog and there were always a ton of dogs barking in there non-stop. I could hear it through the walls. The people who owned it drove up from the South Side every day which means their house couldn't be worth more than about $62,000 (in 2010 dollars) and was probably paid off. So all these Land Rovers from Upper Arlington, Grandview, Marble Cliff and even further out such as Hilliard would pull up every evening and pick up 1-3 dogs. The rent couldn't have been more than $1500 a month and there were never more than 4 people working at a time. I remember there was a 4th of July Pet Parade that happened every year and the place almost turned into a riot. One day I was out back smoking while I let the heat out of my $3000 Porsche 944's interior (it was July and the car's A/C didn't work. Because it was $3000) and the workers yelled at me for not smoking in the car. I wasn't being "snooty" by not smoking in the car -- it was 150 degrees inside! So I got in the car with the cigarette still burning and drove off. I was struggling to sell $150 a day in video games and DVDs only while they were taking in more than that per customer. The first year I was open next door they ripped out all their drywall since it had swollen and gotten lumpy from all the moisture and humidity from the dog grooming process. For the next four years plus (we moved the business to Lancaster after that) they operated the business on studs covered with 5 mil clear plastic sheeting. It looked like something out of Die Hard inside. None of the customers cared since it was for the dog. I have no idea if they ever actually spent the money to re-finish the space and they are still there 6 years on. I suppose the lesson is that everyone thinks they want "strolley" storefronts but what they really get is ones that work on referrals.

Don't discount things involving animals since current mindsets budget an unlimited amount for them, but people vastly overestimate their demand for stores and wholesome businesses while discounting how much they spend on nights out. Like they don't notice that they spent $125 on dog grooming last month and $400 at restaurants that sell alcohol but think about how they spent $6 at an independent retail store.

^When they survey the general public on that stuff they almost always ask for the same things -- ice cream parlors, candy stores, no-alcohol diners, hardware stores, toy stores, independent coffee shops -- AKA stuff that can be extremely hard to attract and keep open under most circumstances. You almost can't ask the public what they want since things like sports bars, taprooms, dentists, insurance offices, and dog groomers (what actually end up being able to open and become successful) are actually way down on the public lists.

Oh I see what you're saying. No those people aren't going to turn on DeWine. The Governors' race will be an ill-timed event for Cranley. Those people would vote for Cranley vs. an actual Democrat in the primary though if handed a Democrat ballot but that's all he'd get from them.

^Bob in Mason, Buzz the Overpaid Boomer, Karen

I've always found it strange that drivers in Cincinnati go so fast on the city streets but so slow on the highways. Not so much the basin but in the rest of the neighborhoods.

Looks like a Bank One branch from the '80s.

I wonder what went on. Some businesses had a tendency to spend a ton of money early on with it not realizing that the "spend it in only 2 months" rule would go out the window.

2021 is only six months out

The students can call it Battersea