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Small Cities Are Becoming a New Engine Of Economic Growth
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com The conventional wisdom is that the world’s largest cities are going to be the primary drivers of economic growth and innovation. Even slums, according to a fawning […]
The Best Cities for Jobs 2012
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Throughout the brutal recession, one metropolitan area floated serenely above the carnage: Washington, D.C. Buoyed by government spending, the local economy expanded 17% from 2007 to 2012. […]
The New Class Warfare
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The City Journal Few states have offered the class warriors of Occupy Wall Street more enthusiastic support than California has. Before they overstayed their welcome and police began […]
As California Collapses, Obama Follows Its Lead
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast Barack Obama learned the rough sport of politics in Chicago, but his domestic policies have been shaped by California’s progressive creed. As the Golden State […]
As Filmmaking Surges, New Orleans Challenges Los Angeles
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com For generations New Orleans‘ appeal to artists, musicians and writers did little to dispel the city’s image as a poor, albeit fun-loving, bohemian tourism haven. As was […]
The Myth of the Republican Party’s Inevitable Decline
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast The map is shifting, and Democrats see the nation’s rapidly changing demography putting ever more states in play—Barack Obama is hoping to compete in Arizona […]
‘Protestant Ethic’ 2.0: The New Ways Religion Is Driving Economic Outperformance
/in Demographics, Politics, ReligionAppearing in: Forbes.com In this season when most Americans are more concerned than usual with spiritual matters, it may be time to ask whether religion still matters. Certainly religiosity’s worst […]
The Expanding Wealth Of Washington
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: Washington, D.C. The city that wreaked economic disasters under two administration last […]
The Republican Party’s Fatal Attraction To Rural America
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes.com Rick Santorum’s big wins in Alabama and Mississippi places the Republican Party in ever greater danger of becoming hostage to what has become its predominate geographic base: […]
Foreign Industrial Investment Is Reshaping America
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Declinism may be all the rage in intellectual salons from Beijing to Barcelona and Boston, but decisions being made in corporate boardrooms suggest that the United States […]