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Free Trade’s Heavy Cost
/in The EconomyFree-trade’s cost to the American economy has been heavy job losses in the manufacturing jobs that historically supported middle-class families, even as it has benefited consumers and tech shareholders.
Green Dreams, Inflationary Realities
/in Politics, The Economyby Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger — Global policy and politics, particularly in the high-income world, have green dreams for energy and the economy; inflationary realities are hitting the working class and denizens of developing countries.
Google: Whatever Happened to ‘Don’t Be Evil’?
/in California, The EconomyThe founders of Google founders once proclaimed their motto as ‘Don’t be evil’, but dropped that motto in 2018 to chase bigger profits and an even higher stock price. Google and the other Big Tech firms are now oligarchs and monopolists, exerting undue influence on the market and on politics.
Gavin Newsom Won’t Save the Democrats
/in California, Politics, The EconomyGiven Biden’s lackluster administration, Democrats are looking for a new savior, but Gavin Newsom won’t save the Democrats. Newsom’s ascendency faces some severe challenges. First, to get nominated, he must not only depose Biden, but also see off Vice President Kamala Harris.
Why Millennials Are Dropping Out
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyMillennials are rejecting the system — dropping out of politics and increasingly dropping out of the economy as well.
The Cost of Biden’s Racialism
/in Demographics, PoliticsWhile Biden has placed racialism — making race a decisive factor in public decisions — at the heart of his political programme, in reality minorities may not prove the Castroite fifth column dreamed up by either the far-Right or their leftist doppelgängers.
Heartland Manufacturing Renaissance
/in Demographics, The EconomyOut in the rolling country just east of Columbus, Ohio, a new—and potentially brighter—American future is emerging. New factories are springing up, and, amid a severe labor shortage, companies are recruiting in the inner city and among communities of new immigrants and high schoolers to keep their plants running.
Class is Back
/in The EconomyThe growing likelihood of recession, at best sharply lower growth, seems likely to further accentuate class and political divisions already rubbed raw by the pandemic and a global supply crisis.
Engineered California
/in Urban Affairsby Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — Nothing so illustrates the mindset of green politics, particularly in California, as the word “natural,” which is taken to mean unspoiled, pure, and better than the workings of man. Yet few places are as fundamentally artificial, if measured by its dependency on human intervention, as California.
Trump is the Democrats’ Secret Weapon
/in PoliticsTrump is the Democrats’ best secret weapon, but his paranoid personal style is no longer unchallenged even inside the Republican party.