In a year when two boosters of the “luxury city,” Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg, are vying to run the whole country, the very model that created their “success” is slowly unraveling. After roughly 20 years of big-city progress, measured by economic growth and demographic progress, the dense urban centers, including New York, are again teetering on the brink of decline. read more »
Economics
How Different Generations are Influencing Our Politics
Race, gender and class may be shaping our society, but increasingly generational change drives our politics.
Over time this suggests a major realignment of America’s party system that could create either whole new parties or transform the current, and failing, political duopoly.
One must look just at the results in New Hampshire. Bernie Sanders won by winning roughly half of voters under 30, according to exit polls, almost twice the percentage he gained among the rest of the electorate. read more »
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The Next Economy: Following the Trail of U.S. Job Growth
A decade ago, in the wake of the Great Recession, Lee County, Florida was dubbed “the foreclosure capital of the country” by the national media, the poster child for all that had gone wrong with the American economy. read more »
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Red v. Blue
The political and cultural war between red and blue America may not be settled in our lifetimes, but it’s clear which side is gaining ground in economic and demographic terms. In everything from new jobs—including new technology employment—fertility rates, population growth, and migration, it’s the red states that increasingly hold the advantage. read more »
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Make America Affordable Again
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has asked for comments on eliminating regulatory barriers to affordable housing. This is my response. read more »
The Vital Midwest
John Austin at the Michigan Economic Center is a long time commentator on Midwest economic issues, going back to at least his 2006 Brookings Institute report “The Vital Center.” read more »
Houston Is Now Less Affordable Than New York City?!
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -Mark Twain read more »
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Standard of Living Crisis Evident in New Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
One of the principal advances of the past two centuries has been the drastic reduction in poverty and the rise of a large middle-class, a process expertly detailed by economists Diedre McClosky and Robert Gordon. read more »
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The Growth Dilemma
More is more and more is also different
~Benjamin Friedman, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, 2005 read more »
Against Tribal America
Perhaps nothing so animates the progressive Left today as the notion of an increasingly race-conscious society, segregated by ethnic identity and dismissive of the traditional ideal of assimilation. If this seems ironic, it should—in the not-so-distant past, this was a position embraced by the reactionary Right, particularly in the Jim Crow South. read more »
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