"Young people do not degenerate; this occurs only after grown men have already become corrupt." - Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, 1748.
The great test of a generation is whether it leaves better prospects for its descendants. read more »
EconomicsHow the Boomers Robbed the Young of All Hope
by Joel Kotkin 05/15/2022
"Young people do not degenerate; this occurs only after grown men have already become corrupt." - Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, 1748. The great test of a generation is whether it leaves better prospects for its descendants. read more » »
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America's Two Housing Markets
by Randal OToole 05/11/2022
Imagine that, on top of all our other problems, the United States had a shortage of pickup trucks. While many pickups are purchased for recreational purposes, they also play vital roles in construction, farming, forestry, and other industries. read more » »
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Why We Want Our Own Home
by Samuel J Abrams 05/06/2022
The nation is witnessing a surge in interest and demand for individual homes around the country. Home inventory is now quite low and even with higher interest rates looming, demand remains high and bidding wars are still common. read more » »
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Do We Need a Capitalist Civil War?
by Joel Kotkin 05/05/2022
We Americans like to think of ourselves as a thoroughly modern people — living proof of what, with enough toil and grit, the rest of the free world can one day hope to be. And yet for all our progressivism and idealism, America’s political culture finds itself unable to escape the past. We may be living in a 21st century democracy, but that “democracy” increasingly resembles something that could have been plucked out of feudal Europe or, perhaps more accurately, feudal Japan. read more » »
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Paying the Poorly Educated
by Jack Metzgar 05/04/2022
Joe Biden was right to propose free Pre-K education for 3- and 4-year-olds and free community college in his initial legislative package, rather than pushing for free public university education and the cancellation of college debt. read more » »
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America is Quietly Reinventing Itself
by Joel Kotkin 05/03/2022
The future shape of post-Covid America is beginning to emerge. As demographic trends and surveys indicate, the pandemic has helped accelerate large, epochal changes in the nation’s geography. read more » »
When "Restoring the Rust Belt" Becomes "Restoring the Urban Middle Class"
by Pete Saunders 05/01/2022
Here’s a followup to the post from earlier this week about my experience at a “Restoring the Urban Middle Class” conference in Houston a couple weeks ago. read more » »
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Serfing the Future?
by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox 04/26/2022
Land ownership has shaped civilizations from their beginnings, with a constant interplay between great powers—the aristocracy, the state, the Church, the emperor—and those below them. read more » »
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The Kids Are Not Alright and the Center is No Longer Holding
by Joel Kotkin 04/24/2022
Across the West, the young are losing faith in the future. The recent French election provides a case study. In the first round vote, voters narrowly favored President Emmanuel Macron, the epitome of “enlightened” elite rule, over Marine Le Pen, the doyenne of French fascism. read more » The Working Classes Are a Volcano Waiting to Erupt
by Joel Kotkin 04/20/2022
Whatever the final outcome, the recent French elections have already revealed the comparative irrelevance of many elite concerns, from gender fluidity and racial injustice to the ever-present ‘climate catastrophe’. Instead, most voters in France and elsewhere are more concerned about soaring energy, food and housing costs. read more » »
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