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The China Syndrome
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com China’s ascension to the world’s second-largest economy, surpassing Japan, has led to predictions that it will inevitably snatch the No. 1 spot from the United States. Nomura […]
Sarah Palin: The GOP’s Poison Pearl
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes.com Sarah Palin has emerged as the right’s sweetheart, a cross between a pin-up girl and Joan of Arc. For some activists, like the American Thinker‘s Lloyd Marcus, […]
Urban Legends: Why Suburbs, Not Dense Cities, are the Future
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Foreign Policy The human world is fast becoming an urban world — and according to many, the faster that happens and the bigger the cities get, the better […]
Mass Transit: The Great Train Robbery
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Last month promoters of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Los Angeles rail projects, both past and future, held a party to celebrate their “success.” Although this may well […]
The Golden State’s War on Itself
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The City Journal California has long been a destination for those seeking a better place to live. For most of its history, the state enacted sensible policies that […]
Alaska: Caribou Commons Or America’s Lost Ace?
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The most serious collateral damage from the BP spill disaster could very likely be in the far north, along the Alaskan coast. The problem is not a […]
A New War Between The States
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Nearly a century and half since the United States last divided, a new “irrepressible conflict” is brewing between the states. It revolves around the expansion of federal […]
Tribes And Trust
/in Demographics, ReligionAppearing in: Forbes.com Only Tribes held together by a group feeling can survive in a desert. –Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Arab historian Time to chuck into the dustbin the cosmopolitan […]
We Trust Family First
/in DemographicsAppearing in: Forbes.com Americans, with good reason, increasingly distrust the big, impersonal forces that loom over their lives: Wall Street, federal bureaucracy, Congress and big corporations. But the one thing […]
How Obama Lost Small Business
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast Financial reform might irk Wall Street, but the president’s real problem is with small businesses—the engine of any serious recovery. Joel Kotkin on what he […]