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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 […]
Where Inequality Is Worst In The United States
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing 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 […]
City of Villages
/in California, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The City Journal Los Angeles is unique among the big, world-class American cities. Unlike New York, Boston, or Chicago, L.A. lacks a clearly defined core. It is instead […]
The U.S. Cities Profiting The Most In The Stock Market And Housing Boom
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes If anything positive can be said for the current tepid economic recovery, it has been very good to those who invest in the stock market or own […]
Radio Interview: Energy Running out of California
/in California, In the NewsBy: KABC Radio Los Angeles On: Larry Elder Show Joel was on with KABC Radio’s Larry Elder recently to talk about the shifts in the energy industry in California and […]
Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register Third-generation venture capitalist Tim Draper believes he has a solution for California’s problems that will make the Silicon Valley safe for its wealthy: secession. In […]
Drought Stokes California’s Class War
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes As all the Californians who celebrated the deluge of rain that fell the week before last know, it did not do much to ameliorate the state’s deep […]
Energy Running Out of California
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register The recent decision by Occidental Petroleum to move its headquarters to Houston from Los Angeles, where it was founded over a half-century ago, confirms the […]