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Reshoring America: Can the Heartland Lead the Way?
The COVID-19 pandemic has had overwhelming impacts on our economy, not to mention the impact on lives and personal wellness.The critical lack of medical equipment to treat and protect those affected...
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Biden’s Actions Are Encouraging Supply Chain Dependencies From Foreign Sources
Despite President Biden’s February 24th vocal concerns about America’s growing dependence on unreliable foreign sources for the supply chain of materials and products to support electric cars,...
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Battlefield 'Burbs
America’s political culture has been shaped by its rural and urban environments, each of which tends to be dominated by one party. Urban Republicans are now as rare as rural Democrats.Yet the political...
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A Vision for Cleveland
Part 1: Innovation and “the Next Silicon Valley”It’s mayoral season in Cleveland and a number of viable candidates are lining up. With political candidacies inevitably comes political agendas. We will...
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The Death of the American City
When my grandparents migrated to New York from Russia over a century ago, they found a city that was hardly paradise, but one that provided a pathway towards a better life. Life was tough, crowded and...
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The Black Pearl of Atlantic Beach
About a year ago, I got a call from Sonny Matta, one of the founders of Atlantic Beach Redevelopment Public-Private Partnership, introduced me to Atlantic Beach, South Carolina – a 97 acre city along...
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Housing Affordability and the Pandemic
The median price of homes in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, grew by $100,000 in February, reports the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand. That means prices were growing by $25,000 a week. The...
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Partnership for New York CIty Poll: Strong Remote Work Future
The Partnership for New York City polled its members in the last month and found that, as of early March, 10% of Manhattan office workers who were working remotely (generally working at home) had...
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Plugged Suez Canal Will Result in Californians Being Plucked at the Pumps
The current Suez Canal blockage has exposed some of Governor Newsom’s fiscal challenges that may be the driving force for the current recall efforts. Under his guidance (I did not use the word...
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A Vision for Cleveland: Part 2
Part 2: Progress and PainPart 1 is hereCleveland is demonized because it deindustrialized, largely through no fault of its own. You can add Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh to that list....
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A Change Is Gonna Come — Anyway
Frequent readers here may have seen me write about my experience growing up in 1970s Detroit. I’ve often said that seeking ways to improve the city and not abandon it, is what propelled me into a...
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Smart Cities and Finance
I’ve been asked to contribute to a book about smart cities and finance. I looked over the long list of tentative chapter titles provided by the publisher and it’s clearly meant to be an optimistic...
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The California Economy vs. Sacramento
Over the past few years California’s plight has taken on mythic proportions — a cautionary tale of progressive woe among conservatives, but a beacon for a future enlightened capitalism among its woke...
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Understanding Major Metropolitan Domestic Migration
It has been clear for years that net domestic migration to and from major metropolitan areas (over 1 million population) has been characterized by moving out of costly areas, like Los Angeles, the San...
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Trust the Science: The Blue State Surge is Real
For months the conventional wisdom among Democrats, amplified by their obliging claque in the media, was that lockdowns played an essential role in containing COVID-19. The great heroes, in addition to...
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The National Academy of Wishful Thinking
Democrats want to build more transit infrastructure in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The only problem is that transit emits as much or more greenhouse gases, per passenger mile, as the...
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Is It Western Europe's Turn for a Brain Drain?
While much of the focus is on the Covid-19 pandemic, the geography of Europe’s knowledge intensive jobs is being reshaped. For the fifth year, the European Centre for Entrepreneurship and Policy Reform...
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What Happened to Social Democracy?
In a world that seems to be divided between neoliberal orthodoxy and identitarian dogmas, it is possible to miss the waning presence of traditional social democracy. Born of the radical Left in Marx’s...
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Hope and Fear: Can We Avoid a Racial Apocalypse?
Jamil Ford still recalls the disorders of late May. ‘It was like Baghdad’, he recalls, even as jurors listen to the arguments during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of killing...
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Spend Federal Boon Wisely, and Flyover Country Can Win
The mad dash for states, cities and other local units of government to spend the Biden-administration largess has begun. Once the floodgates are opened in a few weeks and the trillions of dollars in...
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