Governors Have Bad Case Of California Envy

From Florida to Texas, governors and presidential wannabes are clamoring for a piece of California’s action. Given how hot California’s economy has been in the past year, you can’t blame them, but it would help their cases if the numbers backed them up. Earlier this month, Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced he is planning an […]

Economic Diversity Lifts California

Reports of the death of California business appear to be not only premature but entirely wrong. And it’s certainly not happening at the hands of Texas, as has been commonly stated by business interests that hold up the Lone Star State as a shiny beacon of low taxes and few industry regulations. To be sure, […]

The CalPossible Report: December 2014

A report released in December by Californian’s nonpartisan Legislative Analysts Office confirmed what news reports have been saying all year: The Golden State’s $2.2 trillion-a-year economy is humming. It’s long been true that California’s economy, the world’s eighth-largest, dwarfs that of other states, even during the recent Great Recession. But dig deeper into the report and […]