[nullbull]

Is it time for the government to drag financial sector jobs out of New York? Is it time for the US to drag credit card companies out of Delaware, or agribusiness out of the heartland and toward the coasts?

No. It isn't.

Funny the regionally exclusive monopolies that we seem to have tolerated for literally decades and the ones we suddenly, for some reason, don't.

Or maybe it isn't funny at all. Maybe it's a totally predictable outcome of a system that is highly tolerant of calcified, politically-connected regional monopolies. A system that is intolerant of disruptive, politically-indifferent or unestablished regional monopolies.

In other words, this isn't about economic efficiency or anti-trust law. It's about political sour grapes first. Everything else second.

[anm89]

This gets at the heart of this. This isn't t part of some consistent political philosophy or legal framework. This is policy based on angry people wanting to get revenge on a specific topic.

Unfortunately I think the tide is moving in the direction of this being an acceptable way to govern and while people may get individual things they want out of it I think the end result is a net loss for everyone.

[Apocryphon]

A ton of finance jobs moved out of NYC to Charlotte after 9/11.