"Young people do not degenerate; this occurs only after grown men have already become corrupt." - Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, 1748.
The great test of a generation is whether it leaves better prospects for its descendants. read more »
DemographicsHow the Boomers Robbed the Young of All Hope
by Joel Kotkin 05/15/2022
"Young people do not degenerate; this occurs only after grown men have already become corrupt." - Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, 1748. The great test of a generation is whether it leaves better prospects for its descendants. read more » »
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America's Two Housing Markets
by Randal OToole 05/11/2022
Imagine that, on top of all our other problems, the United States had a shortage of pickup trucks. While many pickups are purchased for recreational purposes, they also play vital roles in construction, farming, forestry, and other industries. read more » »
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Paying the Poorly Educated
by Jack Metzgar 05/04/2022
Joe Biden was right to propose free Pre-K education for 3- and 4-year-olds and free community college in his initial legislative package, rather than pushing for free public university education and the cancellation of college debt. read more » »
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America is Quietly Reinventing Itself
by Joel Kotkin 05/03/2022
The future shape of post-Covid America is beginning to emerge. As demographic trends and surveys indicate, the pandemic has helped accelerate large, epochal changes in the nation’s geography. read more » »
All Major Metropolitan Area Growth Outside Urban Core: Latest Year
by Wendell Cox 04/28/2022
The latest City Sector Model analysis of major metropolitan areas shows that dispersion accelerated in 2020 during the period covered by the American community survey 2020 five- year survey (2016 to 2020). The American Community Survey collects a five year sample that covers virtually all geographies in the United States. The new 2016-2020 sample has an “middle year” of 2018. The City Sector Model read more » »
The Kids Are Not Alright and the Center is No Longer Holding
by Joel Kotkin 04/24/2022
Across the West, the young are losing faith in the future. The recent French election provides a case study. In the first round vote, voters narrowly favored President Emmanuel Macron, the epitome of “enlightened” elite rule, over Marine Le Pen, the doyenne of French fascism. read more » The Working Classes Are a Volcano Waiting to Erupt
by Joel Kotkin 04/20/2022
Whatever the final outcome, the recent French elections have already revealed the comparative irrelevance of many elite concerns, from gender fluidity and racial injustice to the ever-present ‘climate catastrophe’. Instead, most voters in France and elsewhere are more concerned about soaring energy, food and housing costs. read more » »
Net Domestic Migration: Shift to From Larger Metros to Smaller Areas Accelerates
by Wendell Cox 04/13/2022
Late in the last decade, domestic migrants began moving to smaller metropolitan areas and micropolitan areas (CBSA’s) as domestic migration to the larger metropolitan areas fell. The trend was covered in “Domestic Migration to Dispersion Accelerates (Even Before Covid).” The trend has continued, especially in the year ended July 1, 2021, according to Census Bureau estimates. read more » »
We Told You So: On Trade, the Working Class Was Right
by Christopher R. Martin 04/07/2022
It seems impolite to say “we told you so,” but the working class and labor unions were so unjustly maligned more than two decades ago—when they fought the push to expand unfettered global trade—that it seems more than fair to serve some humble pie to global trade’s champions. read more » »
Huge Spike in Domestic Migration from Urban Cores
by Wendell Cox 04/06/2022
Net domestic migration losses spiked perhaps as never before in the pandemic year of 2021 among urban core counties --- the counties that contain the urban cores read more » |
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