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One of the important distinctions to understand in our society is between the middle class and the striver class.  read more »

Like the Marxist dialectic, or the predictions of the Gospels, the green movement has long seen its triumph as preordained.  read more »

President Trump’s Executive Orders have ended U.S. participation in the Green New Deal and Paris climate treaty.  read more »

I’ve been a big fan of Alan Mallach of the Center for Community Progress for years. I first met him at a Cleveland Fed conference in Cincinnati in 2017, and later interviewed him at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy  read more »

The steady decline of fertility rates in Australia presents a multifaceted challenge with wide-reaching implications for the nation’s social, cultural, and economic future.  read more »

Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial concern in a Gallup survey last May.  read more »

My, oh my, how the worm has turned.

Thirteen months ago, in the op-ed pages of the New York Times , University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann and his lawyer, Peter J. Fontaine, were crowing about their victory in federal court a few days earlier.  read more »

Two decades ago, the accepted wisdom in the energy sector was that the US was running out of natural gas.  read more »

Like many older industrial towns, Paramount, a mostly Latino city of 50,000 located 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, has been through hard times.  read more »

The last few days have not been good ones for California’s high speed rail project.  read more »