Free Trade's Heavy Cost
Free trade and open markets are great ideals. These principles, over the last few centuries, but especially since World War II, have created tremendous wealth, particularly in the developing world. But...
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Population and Fertility to 2100: 10 Largest Nations
The recently released United Nations World Population Prospects: 2022 forecasts a future with fewer people in 2100 than there were in 2000. This has not happened for a very long time. Under the medium...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Future
We are entering an unanticipated reality—an era of slow population growth and, increasingly, demographic decline that will shape our future in profound and unpredictable ways. Globally, last year’s...
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Total Fertility Rate: Metros — San Francisco (Lowest) to Jacksonville (Highest)
As we previously reported, US total fertility rates have dropped markedly since 2010. The total fertility rate (TFR) is “the expected number of lifetime births per woman women given current birth rates...
View ArticleAmerica's Dependency on Imports May Be Stagnating its Economy
Shortages of the following may be leading to the new norm of shortages and inflation:Neon - the gas crucial to manufacturing electronic chips.Urea – the ingredient to make the EPA required Diesel...
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Europe Struggles to Catch Up to China and the US in Entrepreneurship
Together with the USA and China, Europe is one of the three leading global economies. Yet, while Europe has a significantly larger population than the US, it is behind in economic production, and even...
View ArticleThe New Global Class War
In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels warned that the ‘spectre’ of class war loomed over a rapidly industrialising capitalist world. Today, the neoliberal world is increasingly haunted by a...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: The Future of Chinese Cities
China represents the cutting edge of 21st century urbanism. Its successes and failures will shape global perceptions of city life, not only in that country but around the world. When future historians...
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Legendary Kowloon-Canton Train Replaced
I was disappointed to read in the South China Morning Post that the legendary Kowloon-Canton Railway train from Hung Hom Station in Kowloon (Hong Kong) to Guangzhou East Station would not be restored...
View ArticleChinese Investments in U.S. Bring Threats and Promise
As if proliferating spy balloons and insidious TikTok feeds weren’t enough, America’s economic relationship with China also is going to get more complicated. And as usual when things are really...
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