Drivers of Internal US Migration

Greenwich, Connecticut – No Longer an Attractive Destination for Financiers

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/01/09/why-so-many-of-americas-financial-elite-have-left-greenwich

Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois. Hello … Where?

The three states have seen an exodus, but it’s not all to Texas and it’s not all about taxes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-09/where-people-leaving-new-york-california-and-illinois-are-going

Why Your State Is Growing or Stalling or Shrinking

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/upshot/american-population-slowdown.html 

Growing Evidence of Climate Change

Floods exacerbated by climate change could destroy Venice

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-blamed-for-higher-tides-creating-uncertainty-for-venices-canals-60-minutes-2020-01-12/

The past decade was the hottest ever recorded, driven by past 5 years’ spiking temperatures

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/01/15/2010s-hottest-decade-world/ 

The Wage Growth Conundrum

The Jobs Are There. Where Are the Wages?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-14/u-s-job-growth-is-great-but-boosting-wages-will-be-much-harder

Related:

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/el2019-02.pdf

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2019/1217 

Low Fertility Rates - Causes and Consequences

The Future of the City Is Childless

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133/ 

Global Fertility Rate Declines

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-global-fertility-crash/

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103

South Korea’s fertility rate falls to a record low
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/30/south-koreas-fertility-rate-falls-to-a-record-low

Hungary, Poland and others are offering subsidies to raise birth rates, but their efforts have been futile.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-20/making-babies-to-grow-economies-won-t-work

China is facing problems associated with having too few young people. Despite the encouragement to have more children, most people now don’t want to expand their families. It all comes down to the economy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/beijings-one-child-policy-is-gone-but-many-chinese-are-still-reluctant-to-have-more/2019/05/02/c722e568-604f-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html

Related:
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2019/02/demographic-shifts-and-future-of-mankind.html

Causes of State Failure - The Case of El Salvador

Once transnational gangs arrived in El Salvador, large gaps in living standards emerged at the borders between their turfs

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/01/11/a-new-study-suggests-that-street-gangs-inflict-broad-economic-harm

America's Role in El Salvador's Deterioration

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/trump-and-el-salvador/550955/

Economic Outlook 2020

Cool Places to Visit

NYTIMES lists 52 places to visit:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/travel/places-to-visit.html