America Hanging in There Better Than Rivals
Appearing in: Orange County Register To paraphrase the great polemicist Thomas Paine, these are times that try the souls of optimists. The country is shuffling through a very weak recovery, […]
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Appearing in: Orange County Register To paraphrase the great polemicist Thomas Paine, these are times that try the souls of optimists. The country is shuffling through a very weak recovery, […]
Appearing in: Orange County Register In the 1950s and 1960s, Southern California was ground zero for the “American Dream” of owning a house. From tony Newport Beach and Bel-Air to […]
Appearing in: Forbes There are two deep-blue regions that are critical to the Obama administration: the Northeast and the coastal region between San Jose and Seattle that truly deserves the […]
Appearing in: Orange County Register For a generation, most Americans, whatever their politics, have largely admired Silicon Valley as an exemplar of enlightened free-market capitalism. Yet, increasingly, the one-time folk […]
Appearing in: Forbes.com Among university professors, government planners and mainstream pundits there is little doubt that the best city is the densest one. This notion is also supported by a […]
Appearing in: Orange County Register Perhaps nothing more illustrates the evolving inner class conflict within the progressive political movement than the recent embrace of California as a role model for […]
By: Joel Kotkin In: MSNBC Joel appeared on MSNBC’s NewsNation with Tamron Hall to discuss his latest piece in The Daily Beast. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and […]
Appearing in: Forbes.com America has always been a nation of tinkerers. Our Founding Fathers, notes author Alec Foege, were innovators in areas ranging from agriculture (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson) and […]
Appearing in: Forbes.com The current housing recovery may be like manna to homeowners, but it may do little to ease a growing shortage of affordable residences, and could even make […]
Appearing in: Forbes.com Over the past half century, the tiny city-state of Singapore has developed arguably the most successful formula for growth and social uplift on the planet. Like the […]