RE: How does the economic situation affect the hobby?
Hey .
If you liked the give aways to stock brokers who got to greedy & price fix every thing they control WITHOUT any controls on their pricing.
Yeah. 2 local Hobby shops closed. They were all purpose ones. Dam nice people too!!!!
The Futures brokers are so deep in losses, they refuse to open their books because it would cause a REAL crash.
It would make 1929's depression look like pocket change.
(Mod edit - political reference removed)