Study shows the US sharing economy growing exponentially

The 'sharing economy' has received a lot of grief from traditional businesses. The hotel industry sees sites like Airbnb as a threat to their way of business, and Uber and Lyft have stuck in the craw of the taxi industries across the globe, due to their lack of regulation and the debatable employment status of their drivers. Calls for regulation in the fastest growing segments of the peer-to-peer economy are rising as fast as their popularity.
But there is no doubt that the sharing eco