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Top Gun FP Client Note: Inklings Of A Housing Double Dip

June 20, 2010 Reading Time: 10 minutes

In the three weeks since the start of our third quarter on May 1st, which coincided with the expiration of the homebuyer tax credit, our per community deposits and traffic were up 23% and 11%, respectively, over last year’s comparable…

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LA Times Op-Ed: California’s $500 Billion Pension Time Bomb

April 6, 2010 Reading Time: 3 minutes

The state of California’s real unfunded pension debt clocks in at more than $500 billion, nearly eight times greater than officially reported. That’s the finding from a study released Monday by Stanford University’s public policy program, confirming a recent report…

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NYT: State Debt Woes Grow Too Big to Camouflage

March 30, 2010 Reading Time: 3 minutes

California, New York and other states are showing many of the same signs of debt overload that recently took Greece to the brink — budgets that will not balance, accounting that masks debt, the use of derivatives to plug holes, and…

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Top Gun FP Client Note: Out Here In California

March 17, 2010 Reading Time: 7 minutes

NOTE: Every week I write a Client Note for my clients.  For a limited time, I am allowing non-clients to sign up and receive the Client Note.  You can sign up at the top right hand corner of the website. …

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CA To Sell $2 Billion Worth Of Office Buildings To Raise Cash

September 24, 2009 Reading Time: 1 minute

We’re looking to get these properties sold as soon as possible. – Eric Lamoureux, CA Department of General Services Spokesmen The state wants to sell the buildings for the cash and then lease them back from the new owners.  It…

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George Will: Tom Campbell Is A Long Shot To Watch In CA Governor Race

September 24, 2009 Reading Time: 2 minutes

An especially intriguing candidate in a colorful field is Tom Campbell.  Colorful he is not.  “Talk softly and carry a small calculator” could be his motto.  What glitter, however, are his resume and agenda. He has a Harvard law degree…

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Meg Whitman’s Sparse Voting Record

September 24, 2009 Reading Time: 2 minutes

It’s a dereliction of our first duty as American citizens.  We’re talking about someone who has practically not voted her entire adulthood.  It’s embarrassing. – Mark Petracca, Political Science Professor, UC Irvine A real problem for Meg Whitman’s campaign for Governor…

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Kudlow Interviews The Top Two Republican Candidates For Governor of California

September 21, 2009 Reading Time: 1 minute

Kudlow interviewed Meg Whitman on his show on Thursday and Steve Poizner on Friday.

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Going Broke: Sac Bee Feature Series On California’s Budget Crisis

September 21, 2009 Reading Time: 4 minutes

A couple of interesting front page feature pieces in the Sacramento Bee on California’s budget mess: “Going Broke: State’s a wreck – can it be fixed?”, The Sacramento Bee, September 20, A1 The most interesting piece from this article was…

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State Governments Under Massive Pressure

September 8, 2009 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Source: “States Shut Down To Save Cash”, The Wall Street Journal, September 4, A1 Also see: “The Coming Reset In State Government”, Mitch Daniels, Republican Governor of Indiana, The Wall Street Journal, September 4, A17 “Lights Out At The Penitentiary”,…

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