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Is Energy the Last Good Issue for Republicans?
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast With gas prices beginning their summer spike to what could be record highs, President Obama in recent days has gone out of his way to […]
Don’t Bet Against The (Single-Family) House
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Nothing more characterizes the current conventional wisdom than the demise of the single-family house. From pundits like Richard Florida to Wall Street investors, the thinking is that […]
President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Digital Aristocracy
/in California, PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast President Obama’s San Francisco fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for Facebook, marks the emergence of a new, potentially dominant […]
Sex, Singles And The Presidency
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes.com By all accounts both President Barack Obama and his likely challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are ideal family men, devoted to their spouses and their children. […]
Who Stands The Most To Win – And Lose – From A Second Obama Term
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com As the probability of President Barack Obama’s reelection grows, state and local officials across the country are tallying up the potential ramifications of a second term. For […]
America’s Demographic Future
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Cato Journal Perhaps nothing has more defined America and its promise than immigration. In the future, immigration and the consequent development of what Walt Whitman (1855: iv) […]
Making Room for the Old and the New Economies
/in Rural Policy, The EconomyAppearing in: Politico The announcements by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) that they would not run for reelection reflects what may be the last gasps of the […]
The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Mitt Romney’s collapse in South Carolina reflects the larger, long-term decline of the American patrician class he represents. That decline was accelerated by the 2008 […]
This Is America’s Moment, If Washington Doesn’t Blow It
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The vast majority of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, and, according to a 2011 Pew Survey, close to a majority feel that […]
In Keystone XL Rejection, We See Two Americas At War With Each Other
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com America has two basic economies, and the division increasingly defines its politics. One, concentrated on the coasts and in college towns, focuses on the business of images, […]