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/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 […]
The Democrats’ Middle-Class Problem
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Politico Class, the Industrial Revolution’s great political dividing line, is enjoying Information Age resurgence. It now threatens the political future of presidents, prime ministers and even Politburo chiefs. […]
Singapore’s Demographic Winter
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Over the past half century arguably no place on earth has progressed more than the tiny island state of Singapore. A once impoverished, tropical powder keg packed […]
The Myth of the Back-to-the-City Migration
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Wall Street Journal Pundits, planners and urban visionaries—citing everything from changing demographics, soaring energy prices, the rise of the so-called “creative class,” and the need to battle global […]
Why the Great Plains are Great Once Again
/in Demographics, Rural Policy, The EconomyAppearing in: Newsweek On a drizzly, warm June night, the bars, galleries, and restaurants along Broadway are packed with young revelers. Traffic moves slowly, as drivers look for parking. The […]
The Changing Demographics of America
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Smithsonian Online Estimates of the United states population at the middle of the 21st century vary, from the U.N.’s 404 million to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 422 to […]
The G-20’s New Balance of Power
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast As world leaders gather in Canada this weekend, the nations with the most influence won’t be the high-tech mavens. Joel Kotkin on why traditional industries […]
Millennial Surprise
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The boomer’s long domination of American politics, culture and economics will one day come to an end. A new generation–the so-called millennials–will be shaping the outlines of […]
The Downside of Brit-Bashing
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast Obama may be spanking BP’s brass today. But the other crisis—Europe’s economic mess—reminds us why it’s important that the U.S. and U.K. stick together. The […]