To set the table for what follows, let’s consider this partial list of mainstream and specialized publishers who have dealt with troubling aspects of concerns connected to the manufactured home industry.
- The Atlantic,
- the Nation,
- Center for Public Integrity,
- The Seattle Times,
- GuruFocus,
- BuzzFeed News,
- Austin Frerick while at the Open Markets Institute.
Most of those are left-leaning sources.
Those articles and the tweet above deal with aspects of how market consolidation, oligopoly style monopolization, and “the moat” have impacted the manufactured home industry.
Before looking at the multibillion-dollar lessons learned from Harry Markopolos and 10 plus 21st Century schemes for MHVille or America more broadly, the following should call to mind the saying that hindsight can be 20/20.
The axiom “Hindsight is 20/20,” per Gemini, is found in the Yale Book of Quotationswhich “also cites the saying in Godey’s Lady’s Book in September …