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As California Collapses, Obama Follows Its Lead
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast Barack Obama learned the rough sport of politics in Chicago, but his domestic policies have been shaped by California’s progressive creed. As the Golden State […]
As Filmmaking Surges, New Orleans Challenges Los Angeles
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com For generations New Orleans‘ appeal to artists, musicians and writers did little to dispel the city’s image as a poor, albeit fun-loving, bohemian tourism haven. As was […]
The Myth of the Republican Party’s Inevitable Decline
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast The map is shifting, and Democrats see the nation’s rapidly changing demography putting ever more states in play—Barack Obama is hoping to compete in Arizona […]
‘Protestant Ethic’ 2.0: The New Ways Religion Is Driving Economic Outperformance
/in Demographics, Politics, ReligionAppearing in: Forbes.com In this season when most Americans are more concerned than usual with spiritual matters, it may be time to ask whether religion still matters. Certainly religiosity’s worst […]
The Expanding Wealth Of Washington
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: Washington, D.C. The city that wreaked economic disasters under two administration last […]
The Republican Party’s Fatal Attraction To Rural America
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes.com Rick Santorum’s big wins in Alabama and Mississippi places the Republican Party in ever greater danger of becoming hostage to what has become its predominate geographic base: […]
Foreign Industrial Investment Is Reshaping America
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Declinism may be all the rage in intellectual salons from Beijing to Barcelona and Boston, but decisions being made in corporate boardrooms suggest that the United States […]
Is Energy the Last Good Issue for Republicans?
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast With gas prices beginning their summer spike to what could be record highs, President Obama in recent days has gone out of his way to […]
Don’t Bet Against The (Single-Family) House
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Nothing more characterizes the current conventional wisdom than the demise of the single-family house. From pundits like Richard Florida to Wall Street investors, the thinking is that […]
President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Digital Aristocracy
/in California, PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast President Obama’s San Francisco fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for Facebook, marks the emergence of a new, potentially dominant […]