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California’s Budget Surplus Has Vanished; Its Economy Faces a Harsh Reality

by Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — California's budget surplus has vanished and the much-celebrated California boom is facing a harsh reality. This painful reality can be turned to our advantage and help us pivot our economy toward greater economic diversity and opportunity for most Californians.
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The Future of Cities - a collection of essays

The Future of Cities

Whatever the future holds for humanity, it is likely to take place in an urban context. Yet, as this book will demonstrate, there are many, and sometimes divergent, urban futures. This book is being published as a series, with permission of the American Enterprise Institute. Please return weekly to read each chapter as it is published.
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Capitol Hill during the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2013

A Nation of Giants Led By Pygmies

How does an America led by mediocrities succeed? For the US is a great country led by small minds. The secret sauce lies in two great assets – America’s geography and its constitution.
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