Tag Archive for: economic inequality

Gavin Newsom Turned the California Dream into a Woke Nightmare

It takes a kind of malignant genius to destroy California, but the state’s ruling elites are well on their way to assure its decline. If the downward spiral continues, it will stand as a testament to the insane variety of progressive policies that have driven middle and working class people, as well as numerous companies, out of the state.

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Canada Starting to Look Neo-feudal as Rich-Poor Gulf Widens

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

How to Shrink a Fortune

For generations, millions have come to California to make their fortunes, relying on the state’s own seemingly limitless fortune of natural resources, favorable climate, and economic opportunity. But now California’s longstanding identity as the nation’s leading innovator, wealth-builder, and aspirational locale is threatened. Read more

Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch

The Western world is experiencing the most dramatic political realignment since the rise of socialism over a century ago. The driving force then was the rise of the working class, created by the Industrial Revolution. Today, it is the shift to an economy dominated by information industries, technology, finance and media. Read more

Joel Kotkin talks with Rod Arquette About the New Green Feudalism

By: Rod Arquette
On: The Rod Arquette Show

Joel Kotkin, Professor of Urban Studies at Chapman University, joins the program to discuss his piece for Compact about the new green feudalism. Joel’s segment begins at 1:31:50.

 

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The West Has Been the Real Loser at COP28

As the COP 28 climate shindig comes to a merciful end, history is truly unfolding, as Marx once remarked, as farce. Read more

Kotkin Joins The Spectator to Discuss Who is Winning America’s Class War

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

Kotkin Joins Gormley Show to Talk About EV Mandates

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

Kotkin Talks About the Death of Silicon Valley on The Bunker Podcast

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

Kotkin Discusses EVs and the Working Class with Kokott on QR Calgary Radio

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