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Politics Move Left, Americans Move Right
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Real Clear Politics In an election year in which the top likely candidates come from New York, big cities arguably dominate American politics more than at any time […]
Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump? The Winner Is…the Oligarchy
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast The real winners in election 2016 are going to be the new-economy oligarchs who are among Clinton’s biggest donors. This presidential election may have been […]
Where Millionaires Are Moving
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes In this oligarchic era, dominated as never before in modern history by the ultra-rich, their movements are far more than grist for gossip columns. They are critical […]
Coastal California Getting Older, Not Bolder
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsFor the better part of a century, Southern California has been seen as the land of surfers, hipsters and youthful innovators. Yet the land of sun and sea is becoming, like its East Coast counterpart Florida, increasingly geriatric…
America’s Software And Tech Hotspots
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Where is America’s tech and software industry thriving? In a new study conducted for the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp., researchers took an interesting stab at that question, assessing […]
Aristocracy of Talent: Social Mobility Is the Silver Lining to America’s Inequality Crisis
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast Yes, wealth concentration is insane. But the ways in which wealth is shifting are surprising—and give reason for a little optimism. In an age of […]
Singapore’s Midlife Crisis
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: The City Journal Lee Kwan Yew, one of the great political architects of our time, died a year ago, but the regime he established in Singapore remains entrenched […]
The Sun Belt Is Rising Again, New Census Numbers Show
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsFrom 2009-11, Americans seemed to be clustering again in dense cities, to the great excitement urban boosters. The recently released 2015 Census population estimates confirm that was an anomaly. Americans have strongly returned to their decades long pattern of greater suburbanization
Even as They Retire, it’s Still About the Boomers
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register America’s baby boomers, even as they increasingly enter retirement, continue to dominate our political economy in ways no previous group of elderly has done. Sadly, […]
Mass Transit Expansion Goes Off The Rails In Many U.S. Cities
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Journalists in older cities like New York, Boston or San Francisco may see the role of rail transit as critical to a functioning modern city. In reality, […]