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

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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. […]

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The Golden State Is Crumbling

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Appearing in: The Daily Beast The recent announcement that California’s unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada—should have come as a […]

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Inside The Sinosphere

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Appearing in: Forbes.com This piece was co-written with Hee Juat Sim. Avis Tang, a cool, well-dressed software company executive, lives on the glossy frontier of China’s global expansion. From his […]

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What Does Rick Perry Have To Do With Texas’ Success?

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Appearing in: Forbes.com You don’t have to like Rick Perry or his sometimes scary neo-confederate politics to admire what has been happening in Texas over the past decade. Rather than […]

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The U.K. Riots And The Coming Global Class War

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Appearing in: Forbes.com The riots that hit London and other English cities last week have the potential to spread beyond the British Isles. Class rage isn’t unique to England; in […]

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Biggest Boomer Towns

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Appearing in: Forbes.com The boomer generation, spawned (literally) in the aftermath of the Second World War, will continue to shape the American landscape well into the 21st Century. They may […]

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Lost Angeles

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Appearing in: The City Journal It seems appropriate that the city where America’s movies are made has enjoyed such a dramatic trajectory. Los Angeles began the twentieth century with barely […]

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How Los Angeles Lost Its Mojo

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Appearing in: Wall Street Journal Los Angeles today is a city in secular decline. Its current political leadership seems determined to turn the sprawling capitalist dynamo into a faux New […]

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California Wages War On Single-Family Homes

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Appearing in: Forbes In recent years, homeowners have been made to feel a bit like villains rather than the victims of hard times, Wall Street shenanigans and inept regulators. Instead […]

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India Conquers the World

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Appearing in: Newsweek From the exclusive Club Lounge on the 19th floor of Singapore’s Mandarin Oriental, Anish Lalvani gazes out at the city’s skyline, a dazzling array of glass and […]

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