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Free Trade’s Heavy Cost

Free-trade's cost to the American economy has been heavy job losses in the manufacturing jobs that historically supported middle-class families, even as it has benefited consumers and tech shareholders.
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Wind Turbines, Carol M. Highsmith Archive

Green Dreams, Inflationary Realities

by Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger — Global policy and politics, particularly in the high-income world, have green dreams for energy and the economy; inflationary realities are hitting the working class and denizens of developing countries.
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Google: Don't be evil

Google: Whatever Happened to ‘Don’t Be Evil’?

The founders of Google founders once proclaimed their motto as ‘Don’t be evil’, but dropped that motto in 2018 to chase bigger profits and an even higher stock price. Google and the other Big Tech firms are now oligarchs and monopolists, exerting undue influence on the market and on politics.
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Restoring the California DreamRestoring the California Dream

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky examine how California can restore the California Dream to middle and working class Californians.

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Beyond Feudalism

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky examine how California drifted toward feudalism, and how it can restore upward mobility for middle and working-class citizens.

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