Justin Fox
Where America gets its electricity
The way the U.S. generates electricity has changed a lot over the past decade.
Solar, for example, is gaining fast and in a few places...
Tourism holding its own
People in the travel business have been warning that President Donald Trump’s administration’s isolationist rhetoric and tougher border controls – as evidenced by the...
Return to sprawl more about supply than demand
Getting new housing built in San Francisco is a famously difficult endeavor. The city is hemmed in by water on three sides, ran out...
Stuck in same old, dead-end job?
I was at a conference recently on the “Digital Future of Work.” Expert after expert talked about the new reality of the workplace, in...
Some Americans are saving money again
The personal savings rate in the U.S. was 5.9 percent of disposable income in March. That is significantly higher than it was a decade...
De-electrification matters
For more than a century after the advent of commercial electrical power in the late 1800s, electricity use in the U.S. rose and rose...
The U.S. is getting sicker as it grows richer
Per capita gross domestic product is much higher in the U.S. than in the other major developed economies, and no one really seems to...
Large metros seeing job growth
If you live in a metropolitan area of a million people or more, the U.S. economy looks pretty healthy. If you don't, it looks...
The metropolitanization of the American economy
If you live in a metropolitan area of a million people or more, the U.S. economy looks pretty healthy.
If you don't, it looks...
It can pay big to think for yourself
Lots of boys go through a blowing-things-up phase in their early adolescence. Ed Thorp’s was more explosive than most. The son of a security...
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