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California Housing Market Divide
/in California, In the NewsBy: Bloomberg Advantage With: Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn Joel recently appeared on the Bloomberg Advantage radio show to discuss the California housing market and the implication of the growing […]
Calling Out the High-Tech Hypocrites
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Real Clear Politics The recent brouhaha over Indiana’s religious freedom law revealed two basic things: the utter stupidity of the Republican Party and the rising power of the […]
Asian Augmentation
/in California, DemographicsAppearing in: Orange County Register California, our beautiful, resource-rich state, has managed to miss both the recent energy boom and the renaissance of American manufacturing. Hollywood is gradually surrendering its […]
Can Singapore Thrive After Lee Kuan Yew?
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast On Sunday, Singapore cremates its greatest leader, the late Lee Kuan Yew, architect of its good fortunes. Yet the flames also could extinguish the era […]
California Should Make Regular People More of a Priority
/in California, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register California in 1970 was the American Dream writ large. Its economy was diversified, from aerospace and tech to agriculture, construction and manufacturing, and allowed for […]
The Evolving Geography of Asian America: Suburbs Are New High-Tech Chinatowns
/in California, DemographicsAppearing in: Forbes In the coming decades, no ethnic group may have more of an economic impact on the local level in the U.S. than Asian-Americans. Asia is now the largest […]
Who Is Leaving Los Angeles Because of Housing Prices?
/in California, Urban AffairsBy: Which Way, LA? In: KCRW Radio Joel recently participated in a panel discussion on LA’s KCRW radio. The episode was titled, “Who Is Leaving Los Angeles Because of Housing […]
The Changing Geography Of Education, Income Growth And Poverty In America
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes In this column, we often rate metropolitan areas for their performance over one year, five or at most 10. But measuring economic and social progress often requires […]
Misunderstanding the Millennials
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register The millennial generation has had much to endure – a still-poor job market, high housing prices and a generally sour political atmosphere. But perhaps the […]
The Three Faces of Populism
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register More than at any other time in recent memory, American politics now are centered on class and the declining prospects of the middle class. This […]