Ah, Sri Lanka.
In 2020: a beautiful, agriculturally self-sufficient island nation full of tea and tourists and holder of the highest “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) investor rating in the world. read more »
Economics
Can Space Save Earth?
by Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky 09/06/2022
The world economy is in the doldrums, pessimism is rife around the world, and most young people, according to one survey, believe climate change means the end of human life on Earth. read more »
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US Auto Access Improves Over a Decade
by Wendell Cox 09/05/2022
There is little in domestic policy in which there is greater agreement than the need to eliminate poverty. Superior mobility, which is provided by the automobile, both in the United States and around the world is one key. read more »
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Electric Car Mandates Latest Frontier of Elites' War on Middle Class
by Joel Kotkin 09/04/2022
California is working overtime to prove something that is obvious to most middle-class Americans: electric vehicle mandates are something of a scam. read more »
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The Bear and the Contradictions of Work
by Sherry Linkon and John Russo 09/02/2022
Hulu’s series The Bear, oddly labeled as a comedy, takes viewers inside a hectic, crowded, struggling Chicago sandwich shop that Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen Wright) inherited from his brother, Michael, read more »
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The Revenge of the Analog Economy
by Joel Kotkin 08/30/2022
The last few decades have seen the emergence of two rival economies: an older analog one built on the actual production of goods, and another that profits from financial transactions, images and customer surveillance. read more »
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The Connection: Housing Affordability and Inequality
by Wendell Cox 08/29/2022
Canada’s housing affordability crisis is a matter of considerable concern especially for young people trying to buy a house. The worst problems are in the Vancouver and Toronto markets with their excessive land use regulation. read more »
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Rent Forever and Love It
by Joel Kotkin 08/28/2022
Housing is an industry, but it is also where people live, raise families, and stake their future. Yet increasingly, all around the world, housing has increasingly become just a commodity to be traded read more »
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Our On Again, Off Again, Infrastructure Future
by John Sanphillippo 08/26/2022
Over a long summer weekend a group of the usual suspects got together and rented a cabin in the Sierra foothills about three hours east of San Francisco. It was an idyllic landscape of modest homes tucked into the forest around a small lake. read more »
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Collapse or Evolution?
by Randal OToole 08/24/2022
An article in Salon by anti-capitalist Chris Hedges argues that our civilization is on the verge of collapse. As evidence, he points to the 65 percent decline of the population of St. Louis since 1950. read more »
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