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While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required Wayne Winegarden and Nikhil Agarwal November 2024 Three months into the 2024-25 fiscal year, state revenues are outperforming lowered expectations. Should these trends continue, the FY2025-26 budget process may avoid the crushing deficit problem that ...
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Japan’s Ishiba: Time for ‘Asian NATO’ to Counter China and North Korea
READ THE PDF Japan’s Ishiba: Time for ‘Asian NATO’ to Counter China and North Korea “The geopolitical crisis surrounding our country has risen to the point where war could break out at any moment,” Shigeru Ishiba declared in a September 25 article posted on the website of the Hudson Institute, ...
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Learn more about how taxes harm economic activity
Does San Diego County’s Measure G measure up?
There’s no denying that the crumbling section of the coastal bluff near Del Mar that holds up the only rail line linking San Diego to the rest of California needs to be shored up. But is a tax hike necessary to get the job done? No, but that’s never stopped ...
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Learn more about LNG exports
The High Costs Of Obstructing LNG Exports
Thanks to plentiful natural gas, consumers have access to affordable and reliable electricity, an often preferred heating/cooking fuel, and an energy source that has helped reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Greater use of natural gas is also consistent with the strong preference of “American voters across demographics and partisanship” for “an ‘all of ...
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Read about California's latest move against Elon Musk
SpaceX Delaunched In California
The California Coastal Commission voted 6-4 last week to oppose Musk’s plans to launch as many as 50 SpaceX rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County. Musk’s response was to take the agency to court, which he did Tuesday, claiming in a lawsuit that it ...
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Rise Of The Machines
Some years ago, in 2018, when the minimum wage in California was $11 an hour for companies with 26 or more employees, a Pasadena burger joint hired a machine named Flippy to turn patties on the grill. “The world’s first autonomous kitchen assistant,” an “upgrade on a human line cook,” ...
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The Gordon Chang Report–Will China’s ‘Doom Loop’ Economy Trigger the Next Great Depression?
READ THE PDF Will China’s ‘Doom Loop’ Economy Trigger the Next Great Depression? “We have faced the worst pandemic since the 1920s, the worst conflict in Europe since the 1940s, and the worst energy shock since the 1970s,” Christine Lagarde said last month to the IMF in Washington. “Two specific ...
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Learn how government is trying to stop another merger
Why is ‘The People’s Attorney’ Suing to Block a Private Transaction That Will Benefit Shoppers?
Yet busybodies from Washington to Sacramento want to block Kroger’s plan to buy the Albertsons chain for $24.6 billion. They’re so hostile to the proposal that Kroger is even on trial: The Federal Trade Commission, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, seven other state attorneys general and the District of Columbia ...
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California and the SEC face legal challenges to their climate-related disclosure requirements
These requirements are not only financially burdensome but have been challenged on legal and Constitutional grounds. In January, the California Chamber of Commerce sued the California Air and Resource Board (CARB), seeking an injunction against the implementation of SB 253 and SB 261. In their complaint, they argued that California ...
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Spending Watch
The Governor’s Special Session Will Worsen Gasoline Affordability
The Governor’s Special Session Will Worsen Gasoline Affordability Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson September 2024 The special session called by Governor Gavin Newsom is supposed to save Californians from price gasoline spikes. The governor wants to blame the price spikes on greedy corporations. His accusations are merely a diversion from ...
Spending Watch
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required Wayne Winegarden and Nikhil Agarwal November 2024 Three months into the 2024-25 fiscal year, state revenues are outperforming lowered expectations. Should these trends continue, the FY2025-26 budget process may avoid the crushing deficit problem that ...
Japan’s Ishiba: Time for ‘Asian NATO’ to Counter China and North Korea
READ THE PDF Japan’s Ishiba: Time for ‘Asian NATO’ to Counter China and North Korea “The geopolitical crisis surrounding our country has risen to the point where war could break out at any moment,” Shigeru Ishiba declared in a September 25 article posted on the website of the Hudson Institute, ...
Learn more about how taxes harm economic activity
Does San Diego County’s Measure G measure up?
There’s no denying that the crumbling section of the coastal bluff near Del Mar that holds up the only rail line linking San Diego to the rest of California needs to be shored up. But is a tax hike necessary to get the job done? No, but that’s never stopped ...
Learn more about LNG exports
The High Costs Of Obstructing LNG Exports
Thanks to plentiful natural gas, consumers have access to affordable and reliable electricity, an often preferred heating/cooking fuel, and an energy source that has helped reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Greater use of natural gas is also consistent with the strong preference of “American voters across demographics and partisanship” for “an ‘all of ...
Read about California's latest move against Elon Musk
SpaceX Delaunched In California
The California Coastal Commission voted 6-4 last week to oppose Musk’s plans to launch as many as 50 SpaceX rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County. Musk’s response was to take the agency to court, which he did Tuesday, claiming in a lawsuit that it ...
Rise Of The Machines
Some years ago, in 2018, when the minimum wage in California was $11 an hour for companies with 26 or more employees, a Pasadena burger joint hired a machine named Flippy to turn patties on the grill. “The world’s first autonomous kitchen assistant,” an “upgrade on a human line cook,” ...
The Gordon Chang Report–Will China’s ‘Doom Loop’ Economy Trigger the Next Great Depression?
READ THE PDF Will China’s ‘Doom Loop’ Economy Trigger the Next Great Depression? “We have faced the worst pandemic since the 1920s, the worst conflict in Europe since the 1940s, and the worst energy shock since the 1970s,” Christine Lagarde said last month to the IMF in Washington. “Two specific ...
Learn how government is trying to stop another merger
Why is ‘The People’s Attorney’ Suing to Block a Private Transaction That Will Benefit Shoppers?
Yet busybodies from Washington to Sacramento want to block Kroger’s plan to buy the Albertsons chain for $24.6 billion. They’re so hostile to the proposal that Kroger is even on trial: The Federal Trade Commission, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, seven other state attorneys general and the District of Columbia ...
California and the SEC face legal challenges to their climate-related disclosure requirements
These requirements are not only financially burdensome but have been challenged on legal and Constitutional grounds. In January, the California Chamber of Commerce sued the California Air and Resource Board (CARB), seeking an injunction against the implementation of SB 253 and SB 261. In their complaint, they argued that California ...
Spending Watch
The Governor’s Special Session Will Worsen Gasoline Affordability
The Governor’s Special Session Will Worsen Gasoline Affordability Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson September 2024 The special session called by Governor Gavin Newsom is supposed to save Californians from price gasoline spikes. The governor wants to blame the price spikes on greedy corporations. His accusations are merely a diversion from ...
