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America’s Agricultural Angst
/in California, Rural Policy, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com In this high-tech information age few look to the most basic industries as sources of national economic power. Yet no sector in America is better positioned for […]
Stop Coddling Wall Street!
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: TheDailyBeast.com By all historical logic and tradition, Wall Street’s outrageous bonuses—almost $20 billion to Goldman Sachs alone—should be setting a populist wildfire across the precincts of the Democratic […]
Move the United Nations to Dubai
/in Politics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com The opening last week of the world’s tallest building, the half-mile-high Burj Dubai, has largely been greeted with guffaws and groans. The Daily Telegraph labeled it “the […]
The Limits Of Politics
/in Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Reversing the general course of history, economics or demography is never easy, despite even the most dogged efforts of the best-connected political operatives working today. Since the […]
Why New York City Needs a New Economic Strategy
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Newsweek When Michael Bloomberg stood on the steps of City Hall last week to be sworn in for a third term as New York City’s mayor, he spoke […]
Obama’s Elite Power Base
/in PoliticsAppearing in: TheDailyBeast.com Looking back at President Obama’s first year in office, this much is clear: Obama first enraged the right wing by seeming to veer far left, then turned […]
Don’t Give Up On The U.S.
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com If the U.S. were a stock, it would be trading at historic lows. The budget deficit is out of control, the economy is anemic and the political […]
The Green Movement’s People Problem
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The once unstoppable green machine lost its mojo at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. After all its laboring and cajoling, the movement at the end resembled […]
Nurturing Employment Recovery
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com President Obama’s quick exit from Oslo and late arrival in Copenhagen suggest he’s finally ready to shift focus from Nordic adulation and fighting climate change and diplomacy […]
Is Obama Separating from His Scandinavian Muse?
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Politico.com Barack Obama may be our first African-American president, but he’s first got to stop finding his muse in Scandinavia. With his speech for the Nobel, perhaps he’s […]