The Coming Office Crisis in Cities

The Coming Office Crisis in Cities
Office buildings, which make up the heart of midtown Manhattan, N.Y., stand largely empty on March 4, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The outlines of the next round of economic crisis are becoming ever more clear. There will be pockets of thriving, but it won’t be in the United States’ once-great cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. Those cities are being pounded by a terrifying combination of factors, including high commercial rents, high prices, high crime, high interest rates, high taxes, long commutes, slow growth, and a growing refugee crisis.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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