There are lots of ways of measuring how New Zealand is doing, and none of them is perfect.
We stack up very well on measures like life expectancy, unemployment, infant mortality, and car ownership. read more »
AsiaAre We Really Among the Wealthiest People on the Planet?
by Don Brash 02/13/2022
There are lots of ways of measuring how New Zealand is doing, and none of them is perfect. We stack up very well on measures like life expectancy, unemployment, infant mortality, and car ownership. read more » »
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How Biden Can Defeat China
by Joel Kotkin 01/26/2022
In 1930, John Dos Passos wrote that America is many things: it is a “slice of a continent”, “the world’s greatest river valley”, and “a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bank accounts”. “But mostly,” he wrote in The 42nd Parallel, America “is the speech of the people”. read more » »
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Western Greed Fuels China's Domination
by Joel Kotkin 12/19/2021
There is a hypocrisy at the heart of the West’s attitude to China: although we’re constantly warned about the threat from Beijing, our political and corporate elites seem intent on making this century a Chinese one. Unlike in the Thirties, this appeasement isn’t driven by fear and ignorance; it is motivated largely by greed. read more » »
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Confronting the Supply Chain Crisis
by Joel Kotkin 10/15/2021
For a generation, the Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors in California handled more than 40 percent of all container cargo headed into the US and epitomized the power of a globalizing economy. read more »
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China's Red Lines: A Failure of Central Planning
by Randal OToole 09/24/2021
Evergrande, China's second-largest property developer, has said that it might not make interest payments on its bonds this week. read more » »
Weird Building & Supertall Skyscraper Ban in China
by Wendell Cox 09/06/2021
The skyscraper is an American invention. During the first 75 years of their existence, skyscrapers were concentrated in a small area south of 59th Street in Manhattan --- in 1962, only one of the world’s 10 tallest skyscrapers was outside that area (Cleveland’s Terminal Tower). It was not until 1975 that a non-US skyscraper entered the top ten (First Canadian Place in Toronto). read more » »
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Powering Down the Developing World
by Joel Kotkin and Hugo Kruger 08/24/2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly cruel to the developing world, with Africa, Latin America, and South Asia all epicenters of high fatalities. But something worse may be on the way – this time not from viruses but good intentions, bolstered by often-unrealistic climate projections, which threaten to keep these countries in poverty for the foreseeable future. read more » »
Greater Manila 2020: The Evolving Urban Form
by Wendell Cox 08/23/2021
In 2021, the Manila built up urban area is estimated to have a population of 24.0 million, making it the fourth largest urban area in the world, according to Demographia World Urban Areas, covering 873 square kilometers and with a population density of 12,801 per square kilometer (33,135 per square mile). Only Tokyo, Jakarta and Delhi have larger populations. By comparison, the 2021 population of the New York urban area is 20.9 million. read more » America the Indispensable
by Joel Kotkin 08/19/2021
God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America. »
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How America Abandoned the World—and Our Own Inner Cities
by Joel Kotkin 08/01/2021
In America and across the globe, COVID-19 is diminishing people’s prospects, exacerbating inequality and creating ever-more feudal societies as the pandemic ravages the health and the pocketbooks of the poor and the poorly educated. read more » »
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