The failure to undertake infrastructure improvements is now burdening commerce in the U.S. the same way it does in Brazil. U.S. of Brazil During the Great Recession, U.S. politicians dreamed up fantastic ways to spend hundreds of billions of borrowed dollars under the pretense of stimulating the economy. One of the ideas included bullet trains, but it turns out what the economy really needs is more freight trains. The failure to undertake infrastructure improvements is now burdening commerce in the U.S. the same way it does in Brazil. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has invited the BSNF and Canadian Pacific railroads to a hearing on 4 September and is demanding data dumps on grain car availability. Meanwhile, the Federal Maritime Co...