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Are We Headed For China’s Fat Years?
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Chan Koonchung’s chilling science fiction novel The Fat Years — already an underground sensation in China — will be published in the U.S. January 2012. The book, […]
Gassing Up: Why America’s Future Job Growth Lies In Traditional Energy Industries
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com In his new book, The Coming Jobs War, Gallup CEO James Clifton defines what he calls an “all-out global war for good jobs.” Clifton envisions a world-wide […]
The Demise Of The Luxury City
/in Demographics, Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com The Republican victory in New York City’s ninth congressional district Sept. 13 — in a special election to replace disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner — shocked the nation. […]
Declining Birthrates, Expanded Bureaucracy: Is U.S. Going European?
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes.com To President Barack Obama and many other Democrats, Europe continues to exercise something of a fatal attraction. The “European dream” embraced by these politicians — as well […]
The Crisis of the “Gentry Presidency”
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Politico The Obama administration’s belated attempt to address the looming employment crisis — after three years focused largely on reviving Wall Street, redoing health care and creating a […]
Obama’s Economic Trifecta: How The President Helped Kill Progressivism, Capitalism And Moderat …
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com President Barack Obama‘s “pivot” on jobs this week shows that the president has finally — if belatedly — acknowledged the real misery caused by the Great Recession. […]
The Golden State Is Crumbling
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast The recent announcement that California’s unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada—should have come as a […]
Inside The Sinosphere
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com This piece was co-written with Hee Juat Sim. Avis Tang, a cool, well-dressed software company executive, lives on the glossy frontier of China’s global expansion. From his […]
What Does Rick Perry Have To Do With Texas’ Success?
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com You don’t have to like Rick Perry or his sometimes scary neo-confederate politics to admire what has been happening in Texas over the past decade. Rather than […]
The U.K. Riots And The Coming Global Class War
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The riots that hit London and other English cities last week have the potential to spread beyond the British Isles. Class rage isn’t unique to England; in […]