Special Report: America’s Emerging Housing Crisis

This is the executive summary from a new report, America’s Emerging Housing Crisis, published by National Community Renaissance, and authored by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox. Download the report and […]

The Best Cities For Jobs 2014

Appearing in: Forbes As the recovery from the Great Recession stretches into its fifth year, the locus of economic momentum has shifted. In the early years of the recession, the […]

Silicon Valley’s Giants Are Just Gilded Age Tycoons in Techno-Utopian Clothes

Appearing in: The Daily Beast Silicon Valley’s biggest names—Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe—reached a settlement today in a contentious $3 billion anti-trust suit brought by workers who accused the tech giants of […]

Turn Of The Screwed: Does The GOP Have A Shot At Wooing Disgruntled Millennials?

Appearing in: Forbes Over the past five years, the millennial generation (born after 1983) has been exercising greater influence over the economy, society and politics of the country, a trend […]

The Spread of ‘Debate is Over’ Syndrome

Appearing in: Orange County Register The ongoing trial involving journalist Mark Steyn – accused of defaming climate change theorist Michael Mann – reflects an increasingly dangerous tendency among our intellectual classes to […]

Don’t make big-city mayors regional rulers

Appearing in: Orange County Register Given the quality of leadership in Washington, it’s not surprising that many pundits are shifting focus to locally based solutions to pressing problems. This increasingly […]

America’s New Brainpower Cities

Appearing in: Forbes Brainpower rankings usually identify the usual suspects: college towns like Boston, Washington, D.C.,  and the San Francisco Bay area. And to be sure, these places generally have the highest […]

Good Jobs Often Not Matter of Degrees

Appearing in: Orange County Register If there’s anything both political parties agree upon, it’s that our education system is a mess. It is particularly poor at serving the vast majority […]

Era of the Migrant Moguls

Appearing in: Orange County Register Southern California, once the center of one of the world’s most vibrant business communities, has seen its economic leadership become largely rudderless. Business interests have […]

Where Inequality Is Worst In The United States

Appearing in: Forbes Perhaps no issue looms over American politics more than worsening  inequality and the stunting of the road to upward mobility. However, inequality varies widely across America. Scholars […]