Kudlow Interviews The Top Two Republican Candidates For Governor of California
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
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
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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Hundreds Injured In California Prison Riot
There was a huge riot at the California Institution for Men in Chino, CA, about 40 miles east of LA, over the weekend (“Hundreds Hurt In California Prison Riot”, The New York Times, August 10). UPDATE (Mon 8/10, 12:30pm PST):…
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“Fragmentation” Is The Word That Best Describes California’s Electorate
California, it’s been observed, is a canary in the socioeconomic mine, telling the rest of the nation what to expect in the future, for better or worse. If so, then the rest of the nation had best be prepared for fragmentation,…
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Sac Bee: Mass Layoffs On The Rise
Source: “Sacramento’s wave of lost jobs hits some harder than others”, The Sacramento Bee, July 14, A1
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CA Muni Bonds Getting Hit
California’s fiscal mess has begun to rattle municipal bond investors. Market yields on the state’s outstanding general obligation bonds have jumped in the last week, reflecting falling prices for the securities as buyers have backed away. Traders were quoting annualized tax-free…
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Signs Of A Bottom In Sacramento Area Housing Market
Is this what a bottom looks like? This city was among the first in the nation to fall victim to the real estate collapse. Now it seems to be in the earliest stages of a recovery, a hopeful sign for…
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Fiscal Armageddon In California
If the ballot measures fail and the recession does continue unabated into 2010, the budget gap could widen again into the $20 billion range. But the governor and legislative leaders may have fired all their political bullets in February, leaving them…
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The Inland Empire: The Sacramento of SoCal
One of the interesting features of the real estate boom was the way that outlying areas from major metros took off. As real estate got more and more expensive in the big metros (Bay Area, LA, etc…), a lot of…