America’s Emerging Job Imperative
As discussed in prior issues, America is at a tipping point, somewhat analogous to those we faced during the...
The Brave New World Comes to California
Whether you compare it to Huxley’s Brave New World or an info-tech reinterpretation of Medieval Europe or the...
Embracing MOOCs Will Close the Skills Gap
Unemployment is at record lows, and skilled jobs are increasingly going unfilled. Bain & Company estimates that...
Millennials find a Home
Millennials are getting a late start in life because of factors beyond their control, just like the Greatest...
The Geo-demography of America’s NEW Economic...
published on: Feb 15, 2018
The big winners of the so-called “Installation Phase” of the Digital Techno-Economic Revolution were the makers of the core technology and their...
The power of Generational Cycles
published on: Jan 15, 2018
Analyzing trends requires an understanding of how demography, technology and human behavior interact to shape our constantly evolving economy. At...
Making the Most of America’s Aging...
published on: Jun 24, 2017
America’s global military, economic, and political leadership depends on being the world’s foremost source of scientific and technological...
Generation Z Gets Serious About Consumption
published on: Mar 15, 2017
Just when marketers were beginning to understand Millennials, a whole new set of consumers is gaining increased buying power. For over a decade,...
Millennials Are Poised to Super-Charge Growth
published on: Mar 15, 2017
Beginning in 1982, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose more than 1,100 percent over the next 18 years. A big factor driving this explosion...
The Demographic Revolution that Wasn't
published on: Feb 25, 2017
Politicians relying on immigration to shift America’s demographic and political center in their direction suffered a train wreck of epic proportion...
Get Ready for Gen Z Workers
published on: Jun 15, 2016
Just when Boomers and Xers had assimilated Millennials into the workplace, here comes Gen Z. They aren’t any more like Millennials than Boomers...
Opportunity Urbanism
published on: May 30, 2016
Demographer Joel Kotkin has identified the emergence of a new urban paradigm that maximizes growth and provides greater upward mobility. He calls...
America’s New Class Structure
published on: Apr 11, 2016
The extraordinary political anger we’ve seen play out so far in the 2016 election cycle is just one manifestation of the social restructuring...
China Hits the Demographic Great Wall
published on: Dec 19, 2015
Demography, coupled with technology and human behavior, is destiny; and unlike the other two components of “destiny’s trident,” demography is...
Addressing the Urban Mobility Challenge
published on: Nov 14, 2015
For the first time in history, more humans live in urban centers than in rural settings. One of the biggest challenges is to provide a satisfactory...
The End of Retirement
published on: Jul 11, 2015
For more than 25 years, the Trends editors have argued that the lifecycle adopted by the Greatest Generation and Silent Generation was not...
The Middle Class Recovery Has Begun
published on: Mar 16, 2015
While the American middle class has not kept pace with the top quintile of income earners since the 1980s, its progress actually stagnated during the...
The Demographics of Entrepreneurship
published on: Dec 21, 2014
American demographics are changing rapidly. What is the nature of this change? What will it mean for the all-important entrepreneurial sector of our...
The American Workforce Advantage
published on: Oct 11, 2014
Alone among the world's advanced economies, the United States will have an abundance of literate, able-bodied, working-age individuals who can...
Understanding "The Greatest Retirement Crisis...
published on: Aug 10, 2014
A recent study from The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College estimates that more than half of working-age households are at risk of...
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