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Feudal Future Podcast — From Boardrooms to Government
by Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky 11/20/2024
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Even Elon Musk is Leaving California Behind
by Joel Kotkin 10/08/2021
The announcement that Tesla is moving its headquarters to Texas may not be a surprise, but it confirms trends that California’s progressive gentry simply refuse to acknowledge. Tesla, among the diminishing number of large manufacturers based in the state, joins a growing exodus read more »
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PwC to Employees: Work for Us, Live Anywhere
by Wendell Cox 10/04/2021
According to the The Wall Street Journal, “The accounting and consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP says most of its U.S. employees can now live anywhere in the country, in the latest sign that the pandemic is upending traditional working arrangements in a variety of white-collar roles. read more »
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Quebec to Start 3-Day Work at Home Policy in 2022
by Wendell Cox 07/01/2021
Evidence keeps mounting that conversion to the “hybrid” or “cloud” employment model is gaining steam. read more »
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Super Bowl Sunday is Flyover Affair — Down to the Ads
by Dale Buss 02/05/2021
This year, the Big Game is about Flyover Country more than ever. Two of our teams are battling it out. read more »
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Virtual Town Hall: Revitalizing California's Business Climate
by New Geography 01/08/2021
You are invited to join Chapman University’s Vice President of Research Thomas Piechota who will host the next Ask the Experts Town Hall on Friday, January 22, from 11 – 12:30 P.M. read more »
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Feudal Future Podcast — How COVID is Shifting Corporate Location Strategy with Jay Garner
by Charlie Stephens 09/16/2020
On today's episode of Feudal Future hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky welcome Jay Garner. Jay is CEO of Garner Economics as well as the Chair of the Site Selectors Guild. This episode explores the topic of site selection and how companies are choosing sites for their expansions. The group talks about how these types of decisions have been affected by the pandemic. read more »
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McKesson Moves to DFW from San Francisco
by Wendell Cox 12/05/2018
The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area (DFW) will be the new headquarters of McKesson, the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributor, the company announced this week. DFW will now have three of the top 10 companies in the Fortune 500 (ranked by total revenue). No other metropolitan area has more than one of the top 10. Dallas-Fort Worth is also home to Exxon-Mobil, the second largest company and AT&T, ranked ninth. read more »
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Replaced by a Machine
by Susanne Trimbath 03/11/2012
I love the Omaha World Herald – I read papers all over the world and this one is the best local paper I’ve seen. The bias is largely limited to the Opinion pages and they do original research on local topics. For national and world news, they have reporters outside the Omaha metro, but they also include the best of the news wire articles. The paper is a readable length, yet it contains enough stories that you know what’s going on but not so many that it’s a repeat of the nightly news from the national broadcast networks. read more »
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Manufacturing Executives Predict Jobs will Return to the U.S.
by Mark Schill 12/18/2011
A recent poll of 3,000 C-level manufacturing company executives found that 85% see certain manufacturing functions returning to the U.S., citing increasing costs overseas (37%), logistics/delivery demands (20%), quality issues (7%) and other reasons (37%).
From the Cook Associates Survey: read more »
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