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Drought Stokes California’s Class War
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes As all the Californians who celebrated the deluge of rain that fell the week before last know, it did not do much to ameliorate the state’s deep […]
Energy Running Out of California
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register The recent decision by Occidental Petroleum to move its headquarters to Houston from Los Angeles, where it was founded over a half-century ago, confirms the […]
Forget What the Pundits Tell You, Coastal Cities are Old News – it’s the Sunbelt that’s Bo …
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Ever since the Great Recession ripped through the economies of the Sunbelt, America’s coastal pundit class has been giddily predicting its demise. Strangled by high-energy […]
‘Lone Eagle’ Cities: Where The Most People Work From Home
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes In an era of high unemployment and limited opportunity, more Americans are taking matters into their own hands and going to work for themselves out of their […]
Joel Talks About LA’s Energy Industry
/in California, In the NewsBy: KABC Radio Los Angeles On: McIntyre In The Morning Joel appeared yesterday on KABC Los Angeles McIntyre in the Morning to talk about the current state of California’s energy […]
Oregon’s Sad Focus on Happiness
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register Oregon is a beautiful place, and, for many of the state’s well-heeled residents, including many refugees from equally beautiful but overpriced California, economic growth not […]
Post-Nagin, New Orleans Is On Way To Becoming A Model City
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes Last week’s conviction of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on 20 charges of bribery and fraud marks the end of a tumultuous era in the city’s history, and […]
Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Greater New Orleans, Inc. This is the executive summary from a new report Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region, authored by Joel Kotkin […]
Southern California has Aging Issues
/in California, DemographicsAppearing in: Orange County Register Back in the 1960s, and for well into the 1980s, California stood at the cutting edge of youth culture, the place where trends started and […]
The U.S. Middle Class Is Turning Proletarian
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes The biggest issue facing the American economy, and our political system, is the gradual descent of the middle class into proletarian status. This process, which has been […]