Economics

The Problem with Energy Blinders

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Blinders are used to keep horses focused on the road ahead and not get distracted  read more »

California Job Cuts Will Hurt Gavin Newsom’s White House Run

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California Governor Gavin Newsom loves to describe his state as “an economic powerhouse”.  read more »

How California is Failing Its Latino Population

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Few states so self-righteously proclaim their commitment to helping minorities like California does.  read more »

$1.8 Trillion for Nothing

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Congress sporadically handed out transit capital funds in the 1970s and 1980s, but in 1991 it made it systematic  read more »

An Anti-woke Counter-revolution is Sweeping Through the Media

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The purchase of Paramount and CBS by David Ellison – scion of Larry Ellison, the world’s third-richest man, with a $250 billion tech fortune – marks a shift away from one-party domination of  read more »

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New Report: The Rise of Latino America

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Executive Summary

In The Rise of Latino America, we argue that Latinos, who are projected to become America’s largest ethnic group, are a dynamic force shaping the nation’s demographic, economic, and cultural future.  read more »

Universities Have Sold a Whole Generation a Lie

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Some day, Donald Trump may lead America into a golden era of reindustrialisation, or perhaps one last hurrah before China’s domination of materials and manufacturing knocks the US off its number  read more »

Gary, Indiana and Urban Existentialism, Part 2

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Planners know that architecture is a profession closely aligned with urban planning.  read more »

Gary, Indiana and Urban Existentialism, Part 1

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I recently saw a good story about Gary, Indiana  read more »

The Spectre of Communism Haunts the West — Mamdani is Only the Beginning

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The surprisingly easy election of the Marxist Zohran Mamdani represents a critical turning point, not only for my hometown of New York, but for all the West.  read more »