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Millennials Ready to Play Key Role in Housing Market Recovery
Recent data from a survey commissioned by Better Homes and Garden Real Estate (BHGRE) suggests a pent up desire among 18-35 year olds to own a home of their own that could easily fuel a real estate...
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Where Americans Are Moving
The red states may have lost the presidential election, but they are winning new residents, largely at the expense of their politically successful blue counterparts. For all the talk of how the Great...
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The Expanding Economic Pie & Grinding Poverty
A review of data from the past 200 years indicates not only a huge increase in the world's population, but an even more significant increase in real incomes. This is illustrated using the data series...
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Angry Gran: Mobile Game or Demographic Game-Change?
“Angry Gran” was one of the top mobile app games of 2012 globally. In it, the gamer assumes the persona of a grandmother gone rogue: Angry Gran is angry and needs money! Whack your enemies like piñatas...
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South Pacific Island "Undiscovered" by Scientists
Have you ever tried to visit a South Pacific island near New Caledonia called Sandy Island? A team of Australian scientists attempted just that and found no sign of the supposedly sizeable landmass....
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China's Second-Tier Cities: Sichuan Rises
Recent media attention has focused on a slowdown in China. The actual state of play in China that should be watched, though, is rather different. While residents of first and second-tier cities such as...
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No Reservations Cleveland
There is a new video out marketing Cleveland and a new slogan: “Downtown Cleveland: It’s here”. Now, I struggle with critiquing it. One the one hand, I get its energy and optimism: the energy in...
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The Blue-State Suicide Pact
With their enthusiastic backing of President Obama and the Democratic Party on Election Day, the bluest parts of America may have embraced a program utterly at odds with their economic self-interest....
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Separation of Church and Urban Planning
Recently, the Journal of theAmerican Planning Association(JAPA) published research that directly challenged prevailing views in urban planning. In an article entitled Growing Cities Sustainably,...
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What Is a Global City?
We hear a lot of talk these days about so-called “global cities.” But what is a global city?Saskia Sassen literally wrote the book on global cities back in 2001 (though her global cities work dates...
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Obama’s Energy Dilemma: Back Energy-Fueled Growth or Please Green Lobby
Talk all you want about the fiscal cliff, but more important still will be how the Obama administration deals with a potential growth-inducing energy boom. With America about to join the ranks of major...
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Born Into Ruin: How the Young are Changing Cleveland
It’s true. I am not happy all the time living in Cleveland. But I don’t want to be happy all the time. That’s unnatural. Said Nietzsche:“Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we...
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Our Dysfunctional Housing Market
This is the story of how elites prospered while killing the singular trend that built America, and all that you proles got in return was a dysfunctional housing market. In a reversal of more than 100...
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Hong Kong’s Decentralizing Commuting Patterns
Hong Kong is a city of superlatives. Hong Kong has at least twice the population density of any other urban area in the more developed world, at 67,000 per square mile or 25,900 per square kilometer....
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Entrepreneurial Software Developers and the App Economy
The New York Times continued its excellent iEconomy series with an article on the job prospects for app developers. The lengthy piece gives a few snippets of labor market data for software developers...
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Aging America: The Cities That Are Graying The Fastest
Notwithstanding plastic surgery, health improvements and other modern biological enhancements, we are all getting older, and the country is too. Today roughly 18.5% of the U.S. population is over 60,...
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The Gun Control Debate That Went MIA
Intellectually -- despite the events in Newtown, Connecticut -- I can appreciate that the “right to bear arms” is a fundamental constitutional guarantee, inherited from both the Glorious (1688) and...
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Want to See Better US-Chinese Relations? American and Chinese Millennials...
While it is still fashionable for politicians in both China and the United States to prove their domestic leadership credentials by taking tough stances against their nation’s chief economic rival, the...
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Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report
p>There has been a substantial reduction in both the extreme poverty rate and the number of people living in extreme poverty since the early 1980s, according to information from the World Bank...
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The Rise of Management Consultants
The always-entertaining Freakonomics podcast last week devoted a full episode to the emergence of management consulting firms in the U.S. The podcast got our attention right away when Stephen Dubner...
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