By: CNBC
On: Nightly Business Report with Jane Wells
People are leaving the state of California in droves and it could leave a lasting mark on the world’s 5th largest economy. Joel Kotkin addresses this topic on CNBC’s Nightly Business Report. Read more
On: The Exchange
This video piece first appeared on CNBC
Why are companies leaving California for other states?
Charles Schwab is moving its headquarters from California to Texas. Joel Kotkin, Chapman University, joins ‘The Exchange’ to discuss why more and more companies are leaving California for other states. Read more
By: D. Dowd Muska
This article first appeared in Newsday
Despise the culture and public policies of the nation’s coasts? You’re overlooking something: the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2012, Joel Kotkin observed that the U.S. “economy, long dominated by the East and West coasts, is undergoing a dramatic geographic shift” toward “the urbanized, broadly coastal region spanning the Gulf from Brownsville, Texas, to greater Tampa.” Crowning it an “emerging … center of industry, innovation and economic growth,” the scholar speculated that “the Third Coast could become one of the major forces in 21st-century America.” Read more
by Gerard Baker
This article first appeared in The Times UK
Fifty years ago, in her song California, Joni Mitchell captured the universal appeal of the eponymous state, a land of endless sunshine and golden opportunity. Contrasting her adopted home with the sheer greyness of life elsewhere, she wrote: “My heart cried out for you, California/ Oh California, I’m coming home”.
Coming home to California is not what people are crying out for these days. Read more
by Georgia Shaw, The Daily Telegraph
This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph
A leading urban planner has accused planners of destroying the great Australian dream and urged the government to drive a renewed focus on middle Australia by targeting development on the outskirts of Sydney.
With: KNX InDepth
On: KNX 10.70 News Radio
Who wants to live in California anymore? Joel Kotkin talks about the challenges that California faces in attracting people and helping them stay. Read a related piece by Joel, on losses among the family-formation age demographic critical to California’s future.
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With: Larry Elder
On: The Larry Elder Show
Joel Kotkin talks about his recent article, Elites Against Western Civilization with Larry Elder, and how advocacy journalism that focuses on a single point of view — instead of informative journalism — hinders solving our problems. Read the related piece by Joel, that is referenced during this interview.
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With: Amanda Vanstone
On: Counterpoint on Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Joel Kotkin talks about the perils of forgetting with Amanda Vanstone, and how the academic focus on a single point of view is contributing to our age of amnesia. Read the related piece by Joel, on the Age of Amnesia, that is referenced during this interview.
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With: Danielle Smith
On: The Danielle Smith Show on Newstalk 770
Joel Kotkin talks with Danielle Smith talks on the topic of the American birth rate and how it relates to the issue of immigration. Read the related article, by Joel Kotkin on post-familialism, which will drive many of the biggest economic challenges facing many countries. To be sure, a major reduction in childbearing is a blessing in some impoverished parts of the globe, but declining birthrates, and the consequent drop in the workforce, will sap the growth of the higher income countries they depend upon for trade and finance.
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