My trusty spreadsheet looked at the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ tally of business output growth for the states and found ...

For all of 2025, by this math, California ranked No. 5 on a global vanity scorecard with GDP of $4.3 trillion.

Gov. Gavin Newsom straddled the line of cheerleader and combatant in his delivering of his revised California budget Thursday ...

We often overlook the immense size of Southern California’s economy. For example, my trusty spreadsheet reviewed a recently ...

To listen to Gov. Gavin Newsom, California is still the nation’s economic leader. In his April 9 news release, he crows, “California continues to outperform every other state.” Rosy reports from ...

California is losing the flagship companies that made the state synonymous with American prosperity. A report in The New York Post this week echoed what we here in California have been warning about: ...

California’s booming economy is one of the world’s largest, but a peek behind the curtain exposes the forbidding reality of a statewide job market that is ranked as one of the nation’s worst. “There’s ...

Rockets under construction at the SpaceX factory in Hawthorne. (Photo courtesy of SpaceX) The latest UCLA Anderson Forecast finds the California economy is growing faster than the nation, though this ...

Most Californians will recall Jerome Powell’s reign as Federal Reserve chairman as an era when life seemed largely ...

California has regained its bragging-rights ranking as the world’s fourth-largest economy. Using gross domestic product as the scorecard, my trusty spreadsheet compared fresh state-level data for the ...