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Remainders: Scrimmage Line - Politico (blog)
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)
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
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
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
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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The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money - Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)
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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Commentary: Keystone delay costs America jobs, energy security - The Detroit 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
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
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)
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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'This is America's moment' - Record-Searchlight (blog)
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 19:01
'This is America's moment'
Record-Searchlight (blog)
Joel Kotkin has been pretty gloomy for a long time, but darn this piece is singing from a different songsheet. While the US has its challenges, it is positioned to achieve a more solid long-term trajectory than its European and Asian rivals.
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In Keystone XL Rejection, We See Two Americas At War With Each Other - Fox and Hounds Daily
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 07:54
In Keystone XL Rejection, We See Two Americas At War With Each Other
Fox and Hounds Daily
By Joel Kotkin America has two basic economies, and the division increasingly defines its politics. One, concentrated on the coasts and in college towns, focuses on the business of images, digits and transactions. The other, located largely in the ...
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Environmentalism and the Leisure Class - American Spectator
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 03:11
American Spectator
Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
American Spectator
As Joel Kotkin writes in Forbes, Keystone is the dividing line of the "two Americas," the knowledge-based elites of the East and West Coasts in their media, non-profit and academic homelands (where Obama learned his environmentalism) and the ...
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Joel Kotkin: Keystone XL: Two Americas at war - OCRegister
Thu, 01/19/2012 - 14:54
Joel Kotkin: Keystone XL: Two Americas at war
OCRegister
By JOEL KOTKIN / Forbes contributor America has two basic economies, and the division increasingly defines its politics. One, concentrated on the coasts and in college towns, focuses on the business of images, digits and transactions.
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The Swarm: Did Jerry Brown invent the word 'declinist?' - Sacramento Bee
Wed, 01/18/2012 - 14:05
The Swarm: Did Jerry Brown invent the word 'declinist?'
Sacramento Bee
No doubt, Joel Kotkin would be on the list, and perhaps Peter Schrag. But was he also referring to The Bee's Dan Walters? Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, ...
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Joe Buscaino or Warren Furutani for L.A. City Council District 15? Vote Now in ... - LA Weekly (blog)
Tue, 01/17/2012 - 14:13
Joe Buscaino or Warren Furutani for L.A. City Council District 15? Vote Now in ...
LA Weekly (blog)
"What I find disturbing," says Joel Kotkin, an expert on the evolution of cities and a presidential fellow at Chapman University, "is the lack of discourse. Los Angeles did not always have a perfect democracy, but you had arguments. ...
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Martin Luther King's Economic Priorities - AdvisorOne
Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:00
Martin Luther King's Economic Priorities
AdvisorOne
While King's economic policy preferences are therefore poorly understood, thought leaders Paul Krugman and Joel Kotkin mark Martin Luther King Day with columns in the New York Times and Forbes, respectively, speculating on what King's agenda would be ...
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Martin Luther King's Economic Priorities - AdvisorOne
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:56
Martin Luther King's Economic Priorities
AdvisorOne
While King's economic policy preferences are therefore poorly understood, thought leaders Paul Krugman and Joel Kotkin mark Martin Luther King Day with columns in the New York Times and Forbes, respectively, speculating on what King's agenda would be ...
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Joel Kotkin: MLK, economic equality and the 2012 Election - OCRegister
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:50
Joel Kotkin: MLK, economic equality and the 2012 Election
OCRegister
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 between rich and poor, ...
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Martin Luther King, Economic Equality And The 2012 Election - Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 09:37
Martin Luther King, Economic Equality And The 2012 Election
Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)
By Joel Kotkin 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 between rich ...
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