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Remainders: Scrimmage Line - Politico (blog)

Joel in the News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 14:46


Politico (blog)

Remainders: Scrimmage Line
Politico (blog)
(Joel Kotkin) ABC News finds context missing in GOP version of Obama's one-term proposition. (Devin Dwyer) Obama has made some aloof gaffes, too. (CBS News || John Dickerson) And a White House chef goes to Israel for some truffle diplomacy.

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How to save America: Build better cities - 89.3 KPCC (blog)

Joel in the News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 11:38


89.3 KPCC (blog)

How to save America: Build better cities
89.3 KPCC (blog)
This is the Joel Kotkin argument (sort of), which stands in opposition to the ideas of Richard Florida, who I think would agree with Felix that the city is the ideal platform for engendering a thriving "creative class" of service workers.

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Making Room for the Old and the New Economies - Fox and Hounds Daily

Joel in the News - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 07:39


Making Room for the Old and the New Economies
Fox and Hounds Daily
By Joel Kotkin The announcements by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Kent Conrad (DN.D.) that they would not run for reelection reflects what may be the last gasps of the Great Plains Democrats, much as California's 2010 Democratic landslide assured that ...

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A Time of Transformation in Housing and Transportation - Nation's Cities Weekly

Joel in the News - Mon, 01/30/2012 - 03:51


A Time of Transformation in Housing and Transportation
Nation's Cities Weekly
One analysis by researcher Joel Kotkin anticipates that the US will attract 100 million new immigrants by 2050. Also, several million former homeowners impacted by foreclosure will be in the rental housing market for several years as they rebuild their ...

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The power of tribes - The Economist

Joel in the News - Thu, 01/26/2012 - 09:10


The power of tribes
The Economist
Joel Kotkin, a geographer, suggests another frame of reference. In “The New World Order”, a paper for the Legatum Institute, a think-tank in London, he looks at the world through the prism of culture. The ties of history and habit—of shared ...

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RealClearPolitics - Gingrich Frames the Debate vs. Obama

Joel in Blogs - Wed, 01/25/2012 - 17:20

Joel Kotkin, Forbes. In the last years of his life Dr. Martin Luther King expanded his focus from political and civil rights to include economic justice. Noting that the majority of America's poor were white King decried the already huge gaps... more ...

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Happy Hour: The Commander-In-Chief Strategy | M <b>...</b>

Joel in Blogs - Wed, 01/25/2012 - 16:00

Joel Kotkin: "The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money". Ace of Spades: "Straight-Shooter Jon Stewart: I Can't Believe Mitt Romney Makes $57000 Per DayThat's So Much More Unbelievable Than My ...

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Is Immigration Good for America? | Williamson County Libertarian <b>...</b>

Joel in Blogs - Wed, 01/25/2012 - 11:44

Joel Kotkin and Erika Ozuna America's Demographic Future (PDF, 16 pp., 140Kb). Stuart Anderson America's Incoherent Immigration System (PDF, 14 pp., 126Kb). Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny The Economic Consequences of ...

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WALKABLE Dallas-Fort Worth: Why Are Skylines Roughly Conical?

Joel in Blogs - Wed, 01/25/2012 - 10:00

This is what sprawl apologist hacks like Joel Kotkin fail to understand. When they talk of polycentric, sprawl-based cities as polycentric cities of the future, they fail to see that New York is also polycentric. Those centers just blur together rather ...

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GOP 777: Romney taxes: The offshore controversy - Jan. 24, 2012

Joel in Blogs - Tue, 01/24/2012 - 17:24

Gingrich sends $150K to Iowa through aide's group - AP News Wire, Associated Press News - Salon.com. America's Burgeoning Class War Could Spell Opportunity For GOP - Joel Kotkin - New Geographer - Forbes. America's Burgeoning ...

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The Mark Reardon Show: State of the Union Preview, New Measure <b>...</b>

Joel in Blogs - Tue, 01/24/2012 - 13:41

The Mark Reardon Show. Missouri State Senator John Lamping tells us his new measure for Missouri Governor and Lt. Governor to be elected jointly. The Mark Reardon Show. Joel Kotkin says the president's Keystone decision shows two ...

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Heavy Metal Is Back: The Best Cities For Manufacturing - The Daily <b>...</b>

Joel in Blogs - Tue, 01/24/2012 - 13:33

Turn down those soulful Adele tracks: Heavy metal is back. By Joel Kotkin, Forbes Contributor. Author The SearchLogix Group | Comment Post a Comment | Share Article. in Category Executive News, Category For Your Information, Category ...

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Joel in Blogs - Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:14

No empire functions or surviveswithoutthedriving force of a large aspirant middle class. The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money. Joel Kotkin writes that the once-dominant class Romney represents no ...

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The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money - Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)

Joel in the News - Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:24


The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money
Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)
By Joel Kotkin Mitt Romney's collapse in South Carolina reflects the larger, long-term decline of the American patrician class he represents. That decline was accelerated by the 2008 financial meltdown that resulted in both the wave of populist anger ...

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Millennials entering the workforce need affordable housing - Greater <b>...</b>

Joel in Blogs - Tue, 01/24/2012 - 07:43

Urban living is destined to be a small niche market in the U.S. Read Wendell Cox, Randal O'Toole, and Joel Kotkin and see how the next 100 million Americans will be living in the suburbs and not in the classic urban cores. All this assumes ...

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<b>JOEL KOTKIN</b>: The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as <b>...</b>

Joel in Blogs - Tue, 01/24/2012 - 05:07

THIS CONSERVATIVE NEWS EXCERPT FROM http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/135850/. JOEL KOTKIN: The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money. The forgers of American preeminence in the business ...

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Commentary: Keystone delay costs America jobs, energy security - The Detroit News

Joel in the News - Mon, 01/23/2012 - 22:06


Politico

Commentary: Keystone delay costs America jobs, energy security
The Detroit News
Joel Kotkin, Forbes: To appease largely urban environmentalists, the Obama team has squandered the potential for thousands of blue-collar jobs in the Heartland and the Gulf of Mexico. … NIMBY America's quasi-religious devotion to the cause of global ...
Keystone XL and Obama's Subjugation EconomicsAmerican Thinker

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The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money - Daily Beast

Joel in the News - Mon, 01/23/2012 - 01:51


Daily Beast

The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money
Daily Beast
by Joel Kotkin Jan 23, 2012 4:45 AM EST The once dominant class Romney represents has become increasingly marginalized as the bond between its interests and those of the rest of the nation has been effaced. Mitt Romney's collapse in South Carolina ...

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Keystone XL and Obama's Subjugation Economics - American Thinker

Joel in the News - Sun, 01/22/2012 - 23:12


Keystone XL and Obama's Subjugation Economics
American Thinker
Joel Kotkin, a superb analyst of demographic, social, and economic trends for Forbes, writes under the headline "In Keystone XL Rejection, We See Two Americas at War With Each Other." Kotkin's analysis of the Keystone issue is solid, but it generally ...

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The Oil and the Glory: The Weekly Wrap -- Jan. 21, 2012 - Foreign Policy (blog)

Joel in the News - Sat, 01/21/2012 - 19:00


Foreign Policy (blog)

The Oil and the Glory: The Weekly Wrap -- Jan. 21, 2012
Foreign Policy (blog)
Social thinker Joel Kotkin places these energy developments within a larger narrative that he calls "America's Moment." This group is battling it out for when it all begins, ranging somewhere in the next five to 30 years. One Republican talking point ...

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Interview on Smartplanet.com

"Greenurbia is the suburbs of the future. The suburbs of the 1950s were bedroom communities for people who commuted into the city. Today, there’s much more employment in the suburbs, and the big change is the number of people working full-time or part-time at home. Having people commute from one computer screen to another doesn’t make sense."

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Praise for The Next Hundred Million

Kotkin has a striking ability to envision how global forces will shape daily family life, and his conclusions can be thought-provoking as well as counterintuitive. It's amazing there isn't more public discussion about the enormous changes ahead, and reassuring to have this talented thinker on the case. — Jennifer Ludden, NPR national desk correspondent

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