By: Jennifer A. Kingston, Asher Price
In: Axios
The most pronounced dynamic shaping U.S. cities, including Austin, as 2024 gets underway is “the donut effect” — a hollowing of the urban core as people, jobs and retailers flee to the suburbs and exurbs.
By: Frank Stronach
In: National Post
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer goes the old saying. But is it true? It certainly seems to be the case in Canada.
A new report published by Statistics Canada last week showed that the wealth gap in our country continues to widen. Read more
By: Jo Kwon
On: Spectrum News
A recent poll shows three-quarters of American adults want the government to focus on the economy in 2024.
While some economic indicators, like the unemployment rate, show the economy is improving, many people are not feeling improvements in their pocketbooks.
Grocery shoppers in Costa Mesa spoke with Spectrum News about the economy and food prices.
Chapman University’s Joel Kotkin, author and expert in demographics, the economy and other topics, discusses the so-called misery index.
By: Freddy Gray
On: Americano
This week Freddy is joined in The Spectator offices by regular contributor and fellow of urban studies at Chapman University, Joel Kotkin. They discuss Biden and Trump’s respective attempts to burnish their credentials with the unions this week, how the cultural agenda is alienating voters, and whether technology could prevent the coming of neo-feudalism. Read more
By: Gerard C.S. Mildner and Trey Barrineau
On: Development Magazine, Fall 2023
Author and demographer Joel Kotkin is a big fan of the suburbs, a stance that often puts him at odds with urban planners and environmentalists. Read more
By: John Gormley
On: The Gormley Show
We see the shift to make more electric vehicles, and many of them piling up, waiting to be sold. We are seeing this shift impact the middle class, especially when it comes to the cost of buying an EV being well over $60,000. Joel Kotkin, Executive Director of the Urban Reform Institute and Urban Futures Fellow at Chapman University, recently wrote about how EV mandates attack the middle class. He joins Gormley to explain how harmful the move to EVs is on the middle class. Read more
By: Dr. Kate Devlin
On: The Bunker
Are we witnessing the death of Silicon Valley as big tech shifts from physical products to services? And has the time of California being the promised land for budding tech bros gone? Dr. Kate Devlin is joined in The Bunker by Joel Kotkin, fellow in urban studies at Chapman University, to find out. Read more
By: Angela Kokott
On: Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge, on QR Calgary Radio
Angela Kokott talks with Joel Kotkin — the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. On this episode of the podcast, they discuss how electric vehicle mandates and the overall push for EVs represents an assault on the working class. Read more
By: John Oakley
John Oakley talks with Joel Kotkin, who is the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. On this episode of the podcast, they discuss Kotkin’s recent piece on urban sprawl as an answer to the problem of expensive housing. Read more
By: Freddy Gray
On: The Spectator
Freddy Gray speaks to Joel Kotkin who is the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. On the podcast, they discuss the collapse of Silicon Valley. With mass layoffs in the tech sector and a post-pandemic real estate downturn, Kotkin argues the Valley is entering a period of long-term decline – but can it come back from this?
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