America’s Demographic Opportunity

Appearing in: Business Horizon Quarterly Among the world’s major advanced countries, the United States remains a demographic outlier, with a comparatively youthful and growing population. This provides an unusual opportunity […]

Dense Urban Thinking Down Under

Appearing in: Forbes.com Ku-ring-gai is a piece of suburban paradise in the inner rings of Sydney. A district of modest homes and quaint small-scale shopping districts, it sits near one […]

Obama’s Off-target Class War

Appearing in: Politico For many conservatives, the notion of class warfare that President Barack Obama now evokes is both un-American and noxious — a crass attempt to cash in on […]

Silicon Valley Can No Longer Save California — Or The U.S.

Appearing in: Forbes.com Even before Steve Jobs crashed the scene in late 1970s, California’s technology industry had already outpaced the entire world, creating the greatest collection of information companies anywhere. […]

Are We Headed For China’s Fat Years?

Appearing in: Forbes.com Chan Koonchung’s chilling science fiction novel The Fat Years — already an underground sensation in China — will be published in the U.S. January 2012. The book, […]

Gassing Up: Why America’s Future Job Growth Lies In Traditional Energy Industries

Appearing in: Forbes.com In his new book, The Coming Jobs War, Gallup CEO James Clifton defines what he calls an “all-out global war for good jobs.” Clifton envisions a world-wide […]

The Demise Of The Luxury City

Appearing in: Forbes.com The Republican victory in New York City’s ninth congressional district Sept. 13 — in a special election to replace disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner — shocked the nation. […]

Declining Birthrates, Expanded Bureaucracy: Is U.S. Going European?

Appearing in: Forbes.com To President Barack Obama and many other Democrats, Europe continues to exercise something of a fatal attraction. The “European dream” embraced by these politicians — as well […]

The Crisis of the “Gentry Presidency”

Appearing in: Politico The Obama administration’s belated attempt to address the looming employment crisis — after three years focused largely on reviving Wall Street, redoing health care and creating a […]

Obama’s Economic Trifecta: How The President Helped Kill Progressivism, Capitalism And Moderat …

Appearing in: Forbes.com President Barack Obama‘s “pivot” on jobs this week shows that the president has finally — if belatedly — acknowledged the real misery caused by the Great Recession. […]