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A Berning Rift Growing Among Democrats
The mainstream media are having a field day, and rightfully so, chronicling the meltdown of the once-formidable Republican Party. Less focus has been placed on what may be equally, or greater,...
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Cars or Trains: Which Will Win the Commuting Future?
Infrastructure investment is a hot topic and the focus of that discussion tends to lean towards transport infrastructure over other categories (like energy or water for example). When it comes to...
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The Cruel Information Economy: The U.S. Cities Winning In This Critical Sector
Arguably the most critical industry in the new economy, information is also often the cruelest. It is the ultimate disruptor of jobs and growth, blessing some regional economies but leaving most in the...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Detroit
Probably no city in the high income world evokes impressions of urban decline more than Detroit --- and for good reason. The core city of Detroit has lost more of its population than any developed...
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The End of Job Growth
Pew Charitable Trusts recently posted an analysis of population projections that show several states with stagnant to declining workforces.This means that for nearly 20 states, it’s basically...
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It Could Have Been Huge
With Bernie Sanders now dispatched by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party machine, Donald Trump has emerged as the unlikely populist standard-bearer. Not since the patrician Julius Caesar rallied...
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What Happens When There’s Nobody Left to Move to the City?
Following up on the Pew study that found many states will face declining work age populations in the future, I want to highlight a recent Atlantic article called “The Graying of Rural America.” It’s a...
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Health and Class
Late last year, economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science documenting the rising morbidity and mortality in mid-life white men and...
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Dublin Facing Another Housing Bubble?
In a recent column in the Sunday Independent, Ireland's largest weekend newspaper, one of Ireland's leading economists, Colm McCarthy of University College (Dublin) raised the prospect another housing...
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Southern California Still Best place to Get Creative
Over the past decade, Southern California has lagged well behind its chief rivals – New York and the Bay Area, as well as the fast-growing cities of the Sun Belt – in everything from job creation to...
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Bye-Bye Big Apple!
Central Park jogs and carriage rides, Broadway shows, world-class museums and restaurants, the allure of Times Square: these are the things that make downtown New York City so appealing… for tourists....
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California's State Religion
In a state ruled by a former Jesuit, perhaps we should not be shocked to find ourselves in the grip of an incipient state religion. Of course, this religion is not actually Christianity, or even...
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Brexit: Why the Brits Will Stay... Or Go
On June 23, Britain votes on whether to remain in the European Union or to leave it. Either way, the point has been made and registered around the European continent that the British have more faith in...
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The U.S. Cities Where Manufacturing Is Thriving
Perhaps no sector in the U.S. economy generates more angst than manufacturing. Over the past quarter century, manufacturing has hemorrhaged over 5 million jobs. The devastation of many regional...
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Outer California: Sacramento Sends Jobs (and People) to Nashville
A reader comment on a feature by John Sanphillipo (“Finally! Great New Affordable Bay Area Housing! Caught my eye.”). The comment ("You shouldn't have to go to Nashville") expressed an understandable...
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Trump's Racial Firebombs Weaken U.S.
The issue of race has scarred the entirety of U.S. history. Although sometimes overshadowed by the arguably more deep-seated issue of class, the racial divide is a festering wound that decent...
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European GDP: What Went Wrong
First the two world wars, then a decline in the birth rate.Newspapers these days are full of stories on World War I which started 100 years ago. They are also full of stories on today’s anemic European...
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Homesteading Detroit
I was in Detroit recently for the Congress for New Urbanism, the Strong Towns gathering, and a Small Developers Workshop. I used Airbnb instead of the corporate hotel option while in town.This is what...
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Why the World Is Rebelling Against ‘Experts’
An unconventional, sometimes incoherent, resistance arises to the elites who keep explaining why changes that hurt the middle class are actually for its own good.The Great Rebellion is on and where it...
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Fastest Metropolitan Area Growth Continues in Prairie Provinces
The latest Statistics Canada population estimates indicate that much of the nation's growth continues to be in the census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of the Greater Golden Horseshoe, centered on Toronto,...
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