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/in PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes.com Last week’s disappointing job reports, with unemployment rising above 9%, only reinforced an emerging reality that few politicians, in either party, are ready to address. American society […]
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/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com What cities are best positioned to grow and prosper in the coming decade? To determine the next boom towns in the U.S., with the help of Mark […]
The Rise Of The Third Coast: The Gulf Region’s Ascendancy In U.S.
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com For most of the nation’s history, the Atlantic region — primarily New York City — has dominated the nation’s trade. In the last few decades of the […]
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/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com America is getting older. Those over the age of 65, which currently account for 12% of the population, are expected to make up 20% of the population […]
The Katrina Effect: Renaissance On The Mississippi
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com In this most insipid of recoveries, perhaps the most hopeful story comes from New Orleans. Today, its comeback story could serve as a model of regional recovery […]
Asia’s New Landless Peasants?
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Landless people have long sparked instability in Asia. From the days of the Qin dynasty (3rd century B.C.), through the huge Taiping rebellion in the mid-19th century, […]
Is The Information Industry Reviving Economies?
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com For nearly a generation, the information sector, which comprises everything from media and data processing to internet-related businesses, has been ballyhooed as a key driver for both […]
Manufacturing Stages A Comeback
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com This year’s survey of the best cities for jobs contains one particularly promising piece of news: the revival of the country’s long distressed industrial sector and those […]
The Dispersionist Manifesto
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Wharton Real Estate Review We live in an era of the heady drumbeat of urban triumphalism. In a world that is now, by some measures, predominately urban, observers […]
The Best Cities for Jobs
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com These may be far from the best of times, but they are no longer the worst. Last year’s annual “Best Cities for Jobs” list was by far […]