3gence Consulting
3gence Reports & Papers
Population, Resources, & the Failure of Malthusianism
Explores how resource elasticity challenges doomsday population models and reshapes economic thinking.
Africa's Enduring Economic Underperformance
A dispassionate assessment of structural and institutional failures, geopgraphy, ideology, and ethnic division that keeps Africa the poorest continent despite being the resource-richest on Earth.
The Impact of Generative AI on Creative Industries
Has strict and stingy licensing of creative content brought Generaqtive AI to the forefront?
California In Decline: Economic Crossroads
An in-depth analysis of how regulation, crime, energy mismanagement, and immigration policy is undermining California's greatness.
California Sneaks ESG In With SB253 and SB261
How California’s Climate Disclosure Laws are about power, not the planet
The Cost Of Ideology
So-called "Progressive" policies resulted in a $14B migration from NYC to Florida
Progressive Policies Are The Cause Of High Costs
Exposes how progressive healthcare policies—especially the Affordable Care Act—have driven premiums higher, reduced competition, and expanded costly bureaucratic control.
What Has Regulation Cost Us?
A deep dive assessment on how much wealth creation has been missed as a result of regulatory laws—many of them unnecessary.
The Hiring Dilemma: Challenges in Recruitment and Retention
Complications in recruiting tactics create hiring dilemmas and contribute to job and worker shortages.
Finite Resources Fails Against Endless Innovation
Humankind keeps thriving though innovation despite having limited resources
Kai Fu Lee's Prediction: China vs. U.S. in Internet AI
Has China surpassed the U.S. in AI? Explore Kai-Fu Lee’s 2018 prediction in 2025, pitting TikTok’s AI edge against YouTube’s might in this deep dive.
The Heavy Load Of Delivery Cost On Commerce
How eliminating delivery costs can save E-commerce.
The Future of American Power With A Nuclear Iran
A sincere look at how a nuclear-armed Iran would dismantle U.S. influence, endanger Israel, and trigger global chaos. This article calls for urgent American resolve to prevent a strategic and moral catastrophe in the Middle East.
Canada: The Global Power That Could Be
This deep-dive analysis explores the economics of Canada, advocating for deregulation, reliable energy, and rejection of leftist ideologies to unlock unparalleled per capita wealth.
AI-Powered Android or Privacy Threat?
Clone Robotics’ Protoclone V1 is a lifelike android powered by AI and biomimetic tech. Is it a breakthrough for automation—or a risk to privacy and control?
The Bidenomics Effect
A look at who the economic policies of the Biden Administration really effected, how and to what extent.
Using U.S. Oil and Gas to Counter Russia
Exploring how the U.S. could have unleased American energy in oil and gas to counter Russia by making it difficult for them to compete in the global oil market, thus hampering funding for their war efforts. This would have likely been a much better tactic than sanctions, which obviously are not working.
Rebalancing the Global Economy
Why a manufacturing America and a consuming China is a win for the world.
The Bidenomics Effect
A look at who the economic policies of the Biden Administration really effected, how and to what extent.