I wonder what the mark up is for products sold by Harbor Freight vs box stores.

Chicago has one of the busiest airports in the world, O’Hare, and has the largest number of railroad freight and highways in the U.S.The gross metropolitan product of Chicago is $590.2 billion, making it the third largest economy in the United States.

@Bill Cereske Most people have no idea what it's like in some areas of California since the redefining of crime.

Prices of lumber are skyrocketing should be buy now and tie up cash for our upcoming devs, ocean freight pricing tripled should we continue ordering from overseas vendors?

I would concur that the US economy is a freight train, but right now I'm not feeling convinced that the price appreciation we've seen isn't largely from falling interest rates and government intervention.  

Though sometimes I wonder if it would be better in the long term if the last of the big manufacturers would just die and let the city redefine itself with a more stable and diverse economy (is this blasphemous?)

They run a local REIA in Austin that is well organized, one room for the "Big Dogs," a elitist group who paid the $50K freight, and then the other room for teaching the newbies. 

They're literally redefining all STRs as "hotels" to get that 7-day minimum rule.

It's a machine to dig up opportunities, similar to a freight train.

Now they overcompensate because only way to stop the freight train is by derailing it.