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The U.S. Cities Profiting The Most In The Stock Market And Housing Boom

March 13, 2014/in Demographics, The Economy

Appearing 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 […]

Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley

March 12, 2014/in California, The Economy

Appearing 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

March 9, 2014/in Politics, The Economy

Appearing 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

March 4, 2014/in California, Politics, The Economy

Appearing 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 […]

Forget What the Pundits Tell You, Coastal Cities are Old News – it’s the Sunbelt that’s Bo …

March 1, 2014/in The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: The Daily Beast Ever since the Great Recession ripped through the economies of the Sunbelt, America’s coastal pundit class has been giddily predicting its demise. Strangled by high-energy […]

Oregon’s Sad Focus on Happiness

February 24, 2014/in Politics, The Economy

Appearing in: Orange County Register Oregon is a beautiful place, and, for many of the state’s well-heeled residents, including many refugees from equally beautiful but overpriced California, economic growth not […]

Post-Nagin, New Orleans Is On Way To Becoming A Model City

February 21, 2014/in Demographics, The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes Last week’s conviction of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on 20 charges of bribery and fraud marks the end of a tumultuous era in the city’s history, and […]

Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region

February 21, 2014/in Demographics, The Economy

Appearing in: Greater New Orleans, Inc. This is the executive summary from a new report Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region, authored by Joel Kotkin […]

Southern California has Aging Issues

February 21, 2014/in California, Demographics

Appearing in: Orange County Register Back in the 1960s, and for well into the 1980s, California stood at the cutting edge of youth culture, the place where trends started and […]

The U.S. Middle Class Is Turning Proletarian

February 16, 2014/in Politics, The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes The biggest issue facing the American economy, and our political system, is the gradual descent of the middle class into proletarian status. This process, which has been […]