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South Korea Sets Another Low Total Fertility Rate Record

Statistics Korea has announced that the nation had a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 0.78, which is a new record low  read more »

Wall Street Journal Gets US Commute Times Wrong

A March 1, 2023 article entitled As Americans Work From Home, Europeans and Asians Head Back to the Office appeared as the lead in the Wall Street Journal’s “In Today’s Paper” internet newsletter.  read more »

California’s Budget Deficit Spells Trouble

Just a year ago California Governor Gavin Newsom could, and did, brag about the state’s estimated $100 billion surplus.  read more »

Feudal Future Podcast: Will A.I. Replace Us? OpenAI & Chat GPT

On this episode of The Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky discuss OpenAI & Chat GPT  read more »

Views from the Left Coast

The Western US has long been an innovator in developing the urban form, notably in the creation of suburbanized, multipolar cities.  read more »

US Work Trip Access in 2021 (Journey to Work Data)

The following table provides US work access data for the 56 major metropolitan areas (over 1,000,000 population).  read more »

The Moral Grandstanding Behind San Francisco's Reparations Plan

San Francisco, long a bastion of extremist progressivism, is currently outdoing itself.  read more »

India Passed China in Population Last Year: Data

It has long been expected that China’s population would soon begin declining and India would become the world’s most populated nation.  read more »

Feudal Future Podcast: Is There Anyone Left?

On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by author Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt to understand the labor shortage and crisis of men exiting the labor pool.  read more »

Speaker Panel: The Future of Cities

The Texas Triangle is a distinctive model for 21st-century urbanism, even after the pandemic. What is it that policy leaders can learn from the success of Texas cities?  read more »