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Failures of the Renewables Transition Era are Insults to Taxpayers

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Natural gas and crude oil are commonly needed fossil fuels to manufacture insulation, wires, and computers used in all methods of generating electricity.  read more »

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Revival: Americans Heading Back to the Hinterlands

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The famous New Yorker magazine cover showing much of civilization ending at the Hudson River, save for Chicago, D.C., and then the West Coast, had more than a grain of truth for much of the 20thcentury.  read more »

Exodus: Affordability Crisis Sends Americans Packing From Big Cities

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For much of the past century, in both the United States and elsewhere, the inexorable trend has been for people to move from rural areas and towns to ever larger cities  read more »

Geography, Place, and the Making of Citizens

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Last year, only 34 percent of Americans could locate Ukraine on a map even as Congress debated billions in military aid that would shape global security. This geographic illiteracy isn't just embarrassing; it's dangerous.  read more »

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Paris is a Knowledge Leader but France as a Nation Lags Behind

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Paris hosts some of the world´s leading technology companies, has several of the leading technological universities and is the European region with highest total number of knowledge intensive jobs  read more »

Don't Judge Trump's Economic Agenda on One Jobs Report

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The recent jobs report showing declines in almost all high-wage sector  read more »

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Big Tech Is Scorching The Electric Grid

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In 1946, when ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose computer, was first turned on, it used so much power (about 174 kilowatts) that it caused the lights in Philadelphia to dim momentarily.  read more »

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Why is California Losing Good Jobs to Other States? It's Not Rocket Science

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For a century, it worked, and brilliantly. The “California model” rested on massive investments in higher education, development of industrial zones in places such as the South Bay and Silicon Valley, and persistent upgrading of basic infrastructure.  read more »

Below Replacement Rate Fertility World-Wide Seems Imminent

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The World Bank recently released its Total Fertility Rate (TFR) estimates for 2023.  read more »

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