The companies are always in a strong position because only they know what's their bottom line. It's very easy to play localities off each other.

It's become more and more like an incentives arms race, where they feel obligated to play this particular game and provide incentives to match what other people are providing. It's kind of a waste of money.

With everybody trying to play the game, it pushes the costs up for everybody. Which isn't a good situation considering the fiscal realities being faced by many local and state governments.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.