They simply haven’t experienced it yet. When Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, a finance and real-estate professor at Columbia, proposed the doom-loop theory in 2022, he had a very specific sequence in mind.

Where the AfD won Those poorer regions have entered into a demographic doom loop: a self-reinforcing cycle of shrinking and aging populations, crumbling government services and sluggish economic ...

which should in theory solve all of my problems. Except I can’t always get it to work on my phone, which leads to more password-changing doom loops, which leads to more minutes of my life lost ...

Mayor Bruce Harrell, Gov. Bob Ferguson and business leaders made the case that downtown is turning a corner. Here's what the ...

Public safety investments are paying off, says Downtown Seattle Association CEO Jon Scholes. "You can feel it on the streets ...

On Thursday, he cast himself as a skunk at a picnic when he warned the city could be on the verge of entering a “doom loop.” Wilkerson spoke at the Portland Metro Chamber’s annual economic ...

As one researcher put it, the local economy is on the precipice of an "urban doom loop," if it isn't there already. The Portland Metro Chamber's full 2025 State of the Economy report is a lengthy ...

Economists and business leaders warned about the several challenges the region faces this year. Economists who track city trends frequently talk of a phenomenon called the “Urban Doom Loop.” ...