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[Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and political commentary about places] America on the Rise | Newgeography.com: Will may be one of America's great columnists, but he - like his equally distinguished liberal counterpart Thomas Friedman - may be falling prey to a current fashion for sinophilia. It is a sign of the times that conservatives as well as liberals often underestimate the Middle Kingdom's problems - in addition to America's relative strengths.

[The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories] Obama's Middle-Class Meltdown - Page 1 - The Daily Beast: Have you considered hiding your disabilities enough to get a job, if you can, and then using the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) to try to force the employer to accommodate you? I think that's going to be how a lot of people like me will cling to survival in the future when were so old and ill that employers will want to get rid of us.

[Joel Kotkin] The Kids Will Be Alright | Joel Kotkin: Within the next four decades, most of the developed countries in both Europe and East Asia will become veritable old-age homes: A third or more of their populations will be over 65, compared with only a fifth in America. Like the rest of the developed world, the U.S. will certainly have to cope with an aging population and lower population growth, but in relative terms the county will boast a youthful, dynamic demographic.

[Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and political commentary about places] The Kids Will Be Alright | Newgeography.com: The country boasts a fertility rate 50% higher than that of Russia, Germany or Japan and well above that of China, Italy, Singapore, North Korea and virtually all of eastern Europe. Add to that the even greater impact of continued large-scale immigration to America from around the world.

[Joel Kotkin] The War Against Suburbia | Joel Kotkin: Many Obama appointees””such as at the Departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)””favor a policy agenda that would drive more Americans to live in central cities. And the president himself seems to embrace this approach, declaring in February that “the days of building sprawl” were, in his words, “over.”

[AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online] The War Against Suburbia - The War Against Suburbia ”” The American ...: Recent studies out of Australia show that townhouses, small condos, and even single-family homes generate far less heat per capita than the supposedly environmentally superior residential towers, particularly when one takes into account the cost of heating common areas and the highly consumptive lifestyle of affluent urbanites (with their country homes, vacations, and frequent flying). In terms of energy conservation, the easiest and least expensive option may be to retrofit single-family houses and wood-shaded townhouses.

[Occidental Dissent] Occidental Dissent » Blog Archive » Legitimate conflict of interest: Nevertheless, as Joel Kotkin points out in his recent book “The Next Hundred Million”, the U.S. stands poised to add 100 million non-whites by 2050, making the current white majority into a minority and implying a dramatic decline in their political and cultural influence.

[Newshoggers.com] Sunday Reading: Ultimately, the war against suburbia reflects a radical new vision of American life which, in the name of community and green values, would reverse the democratizing of the landscape that has characterized much of the past 50 years. It would replace a political economy based on individual aspiration and association in small communities, with a more highly organized, bureaucratic, and hierarchical form of social organization.

[The Bellows] The Bellows » Understanding Washington: Big error the first in Kotkin’s piece is the idea that Washington only grows at the expense of other places. He is right that in the past few months, there has been a direct transfer of power from places like New York and Detroit to Washington (though it’s not as if Washington forced itself on industries in those cities;

[DMI Blog] The importance of protecting New York manufacturing | DMI Blog: I may not have an economics degree, but as a personal investor saving for my retirement I can tell you that my portfolio has a range securities: some aggressive stocks that have the potential to pay off with significant gains (but which are also volatile and may lose value) as well as bonds or fixed-income securities which pay a more modest, but predictable return over the long run. Fundamentally, cities should be no different in how they pursue their long-term economic viability.

[The Urbanophile] The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » What's Killing California?: You’re still a schoolteacher, not getting paid much, but you bought a house in Santa Monica, or Westwood, or some other region of town to which wealthy people moved in large numbers. Now you’re retired, living on Social Security and a small pension, and some idiot wants you to pay property taxes based on what the property’s worth if you sell it.

[Rogue Columnist] Rogue Columnist: The Godot housing recovery: Poverty, meanwhile, is moving out into the suburbs and the exurbs as the one significant asset many Americans had continues to deteriorate in many locales. Worse, for millions, it won't regain its rapid appreciation, which they had counted on in lieu of rising wages, job security, pensions and the economic mobility of America from the 1940s to the 1990s.

[The Rates Blog] Opinion - Blogging On Interest Rates, Economics & Business in New ...: Your point about the cost of land and restrictions highlights a “fundamental failure” of free market economics, That is the restrictions have distorted the market (by restricting land supply the cost goes up), so yes we could drop the cost of land by removing the restriction BUT there is another issue here, price elasticity (demand/supply pricing) is based on the precept that if a commodity becomes to expensive then substitution occurs, in this case we would be substituting central convenience for a larger city, Which if you read is pretty much the theme of the drift to the suburbs in the US post WWII

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