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Migration Economies and Portland
Migrants moving into a region stimulate economic growth. Newcomers demand more housing and local services, to name a few ways the inbound impact the economy. Over the course of the 20th century, the...
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The Heart of Demographic Doom
These days, a lot of places are dying. Varying degrees of demographic decline plagues the wealthiest countries. Projections for developing nations look dire, too. One of the gloomiest takes I read this...
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Tech Talent Recruiting Geography
Jobs follow talent. Investment follows talent. Workers own the means of production. The Creative Class rules the world. Richard Florida’s utopian geography seduces the upwardly mobile. But don’t expect...
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Talent Is the New Oil: OPEC of Tech
Tech salaries are too damn low, suspiciously so. Let me explain. The Manufacturing Economy was a boon to management and labor. The wealth generated allowed the working class to buy into the suburban...
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Silicon Rust
We have “Silicon Beach” and “Silicon Roundabout.” Yesterday morning, I read about “Silicon Shore,” located in Newcastle, U.K. The generic name for Silicon Whatever is Silicon Rust. As manufacturing...
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What Tech Talent Shortage? Microsoft Trims 18,000 Employees From Payroll
The Tech Economy is dying. And by that, I mean the Innovation Economy (to stick with Enrico Moretti’s terminology in his book The New Geography of Jobs) is dying. The “Innovation Economy” is an epoch,...
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