Prioritizing Small Business
“Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all – to different degrees – unnecessary slices of the wedge that
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
November 24, 2020
Author: Justin Adams, Ph.D.
President and Chief Economist of Encina Advisors, LLC, a Davis-based economics research and analysis firm.
Killing the Golden Goose
“I’m a business person. I don’t need folks to start lecturing me on regulations and costs of doing business.” – Governor Gavin Newsom while addressing
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
November 6, 2020
A Brief Note on Being the Envy of the World
Ninety-nine percent of all statistics only tell forty-nine percent of the story.” – Ron DeLegge, Financial Author Having a high rate of economic growth solves a
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
March 12, 2020
Are Climate Policies Really an Economic Boon to the San Joaquin Valley?
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.” – Margaret Peters State climate policies are boosting the San Joaquin Valley’s economy. At
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
January 30, 2017
“California Can’t Go Back”: Why Proposition 55 Will Increase Sales Taxes
“The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.” – Anonymous The most recent
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
November 3, 2016
Wishful Thinking about California’s Business Friendliness
“One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
August 8, 2016
Morality and the Minimum Wage
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Teddy Roosevelt Gov.
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
April 11, 2016
Placing Sales Taxes on Services Creates Upward Mobility for Few
Some have called Senate Bill (SB) 8, Senator Robert Hertzberg’s proposal to impose sales taxes on most services in California, needed tax reform. The basic
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
May 29, 2015
Keep Off California’s Recovery
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have
Justin Adams, Ph.D.
April 28, 2015