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Stop Favoring Investors, Speculators over Middle Class
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register I, like most members of the middle class, particularly in California, just paid a tax bill that seemed less like my fair share than a […]
Special Report: America’s Emerging Housing Crisis
/in California, Demographics, Urban AffairsThis 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
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing 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
/in California, The EconomyAppearing 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?
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing 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
/in California, PoliticsAppearing 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
/in Politics, Urban AffairsAppearing 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
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing 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
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing 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
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing 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 […]