As the agricultural sector in the United States crumbles, the Wall Street journal reports that corn imports to the United States from South America are increasing at breakneck pace. This increase in imports is occurring as the movement of domestic corn to market has slowed to a trickle. Contributing to this structural problem is how much cheaper it is to move grain from South America by ocean than it is to move it inside the United States by rail. Rail transport prices remain high even as an increasing number of rail lines are being taken out of service and converted to trails for bicycle and pedestrian use. The continued growth of these intertwining problems is highly suggestive of the possibility that the United States has an actively undeveloping economy, a fact that creates opportunities for the actively developing economies in South America exploiting structurally broken US markets.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the theft of several printed pictures of Campbell's soup cans by 20th century American marketer Andrew Warhola (archived). This theft happened at an art museum in Springfield, the city in remote south western Missouri that isn't Branson. Several media organizations have erroneously misrepresented the printed images of soup cans which have attracted the highest United States "law enforcement" agency as paintings. They are not paintings. They have also misrepresented the late Mr. Warhola as an artist named Warhol when he professionally acted as a marketer and his birth name was Warhola.